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Charles Simic quotes: The highest levels of consciousness are wordless. The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
Charles Simic quotes: In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see. In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see.
Charles Simic quotes: Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships. Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
Charles Simic quotes: I remember," someone said, "how in ancient times one could turn a wolf into a human and then lecture it to one's heart's content. I remember," someone said, "how in ancient times one could turn a wolf into a human and then lecture it to one's heart's content.
Charles Simic quotes: Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder. Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.
Charles Simic quotes: One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
Charles Simic quotes: Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family members can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage. Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family members can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage.
Charles Simic quotes: Time - the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open. Time - the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open.
Charles Simic quotes: Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps. Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
Charles Simic quotes: Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist. Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.
Charles Simic quotes: I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night. I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
Charles Simic quotes: While you sitLike a rain puddle in hellKnitting the socks Of your life. While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.
Charles Simic quotes: It was only the sea sounding wearyAfter so many lifetimesOf pretending to be rushing off somewhereAnd never getting anywhere. It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere.
Charles Simic quotes: Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
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. 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: Never since the beginning of the world has there been so little light. Our winter afternoons have been known at times to last a hundred years. Never since the beginning of the world has there been so little light. Our winter afternoons have been known at times to last a hundred years.
Charles Simic quotes: Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley. Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Charles Simic quotes: I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently. I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.
Charles Simic quotes: Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
Charles Simic quotes: Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him. Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.
Charles Simic quotes: Poetry is an orphan of silence. Poetry is an orphan of silence.
Charles Simic quotes: The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
Charles Simic quotes: MY SECRET IDENTITY ISThe room is empty,And the window is open MY SECRET IDENTITY IS

The room is empty,
And the window is open
Charles Simic quotes: The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
Charles Simic quotes: Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives. Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.
Charles Simic quotes: When you play chess alone it's always your move. When you play chess alone it's always your move.
Charles Simic quotes: Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
Charles Simic quotes: He who cannot howl will not find his pack. He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
Charles Simic quotes: At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure. At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.
Charles Simic quotes: I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me. I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.
Charles Simic quotes: There's no preparation for poetry. There's no preparation for poetry.
Charles Simic quotes: Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone. Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.
Charles Simic quotes: Silence is the only language god speaks. Silence is the only language god speaks.
Charles Simic quotes: The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader. The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.
Charles Simic quotes: The stars know everything,So we try to read their minds.As distant as they are,We choose to whisper in their presence. The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.
Charles Simic quotes: A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
Charles Simic quotes: Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic quotes: A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. A poem is an instant of lucidity in which
the entire organism participates.
Charles Simic quotes: Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous. Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.
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. 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: A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
Charles Simic quotes: If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper. If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
Charles Simic quotes: When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook. When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.
Charles Simic quotes: Only broomsKnow the devilStill exists,That the snow grows whiterAfter a crow has flown over it Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it
Charles Simic quotes: The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art. The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
Charles Simic quotes: Making art in America is about saving one's soul. Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
Charles Simic quotes: I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions. I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.
Charles Simic quotes: The secret wish of poetry is to stop time. The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.
Charles Simic quotes: To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
Charles Simic quotes: Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful... Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful...
Charles Simic quotes: If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.
Charles Simic quotes: Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket

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