Charles Simic Quotes
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for ...
Show MorePoetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.
The ProdigalDark morning rainMeant to fallOn a prison and a schoolyard,Falling meanwhileOn my mother...
Show MoreLike many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without ...
Show MoreOne writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Oth...
Show MoreIn their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-cl...
Show MoreOnce I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking t...
Show MoreI love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had ...
Show MoreFor Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eter...
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