Opens

Famous quotes containing the word opens:

“I can smell
the blade that opens the hole
and the pudgy white fingers

that shake out the intestines
like a hankie.”
—Philip Levine (b. 1928)

“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)