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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
— Charles Simic
In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see.
— Charles Simic
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
— Charles Simic
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
Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.
— Charles Simic
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
— Charles Simic
Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.
— Charles Simic
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
It was only the sea sounding wearyAfter so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere. — Charles Simic
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
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.— Charles Simic
I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.
— Charles Simic
Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.
— Charles Simic
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
— Charles Simic
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
— Charles Simic
MY SECRET IDENTITY ISThe room is empty,
And the window is open — Charles Simic
The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
— Charles Simic
When you play chess alone it's always your move.
— Charles Simic
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
— Charles Simic
He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
— Charles Simic
At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.
— Charles Simic
I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.
— Charles Simic
There's no preparation for poetry.
— Charles Simic
Silence is the only language god speaks.
— Charles Simic
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.
— Charles Simic
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
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
— Charles Simic
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
— Charles Simic
Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.
— Charles Simic
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
— Charles Simic
If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
— Charles Simic
When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.
— Charles Simic
Only broomsKnow the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it — Charles Simic
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
— Charles Simic
Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
— Charles Simic
The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.
— Charles Simic
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
— Charles Simic
Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful...
— Charles Simic
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
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket
— Charles Simic