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Charles Simic Quotes
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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That’s why we need art. (Charles Simic Quotes)
Poetry is an orphan of silence (Charles Simic Quotes)
I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me (Charles Simic Quotes)
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader. (Charles Simic Quotes)
I’m not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I’m against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry. (Charles Simic Quotes)
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck (Charles Simic Quotes)
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny (Charles Simic Quotes)
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas (Charles Simic Quotes)
The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination (Charles Simic Quotes)
The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats (Charles Simic Quotes)
There’s no preparation for poetry (Charles Simic Quotes)
The truth is dark under your eyelids (Charles Simic Quotes)
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them (Charles Simic Quotes)
The highest levels of consciousness are wordless (Charles Simic Quotes)
When you play chess alone it’s always your move (Charles Simic Quotes)
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket (Charles Simic Quotes)
If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper (Charles Simic Quotes)
He who cannot howl will not find his pack (Charles Simic Quotes)
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley (Charles Simic Quotes)
Silence is the only language God speaks (Charles Simic Quotes)
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions (Charles Simic Quotes)
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships (Charles Simic Quotes)
I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently (Charles Simic Quotes)
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That’s why we need art (Charles Simic Quotes)
The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who’s to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket (Charles Simic Quotes)
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships (Charles Simic Quotes)
There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It’s something one is born with and stuck with. It’s not something you make a decision about (Charles Simic Quotes)
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it! (Charles Simic Quotes)
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words (Charles Simic Quotes)
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator (Charles Simic Quotes)
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