Charles Simic Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Simic
Charles Simic Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
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.
I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere.
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere.
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.
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.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.
The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.