"You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor."
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Drawers
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
22 quotes
Emily Dickinson
Poet
Rachel Vincent
Author
"I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer."
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, Author
"As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit."
Gunter Grass
Novelist
"Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them."
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