What is open?

Famous quotes containing the word open:

    “Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “A breeze discovered my open book
    And began to flutter the leaves to look
    For a poem there used to be on Spring.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “If you can’t smile, don’t open a store.”
    —Chinese proverb.