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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
— Christopher Morley
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An editorial interpretation.
The poet's courage is pictured as keeping a door to madness slightly open. The image suggests a willingness to remain near unsettling possibilities without describing a full passage through them. Its force comes from making creativity a deliberate relationship with a disturbing threshold.
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