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> [“هندوانه بودای سبز بر پیشخوان میوه فروش لبخندش را گاز میزنیم و دندانهایش را تف میکنیم :: Watermelons Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/watermelons-green-buddhas-on-the-fruit-stand-we-eat-the-smile-and/)

[Charles Simic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-simic/)

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## More by Charles Simic

> [“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/lyric-poets-are-always-corrupting-the-young-making-them-choke-in-self/)

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> [“There’s a book called “A Dictionary of Angels.” No one has opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/there-s-a-book-called-a-dictionary-of-angels-no-one-has-opened-it-in/)

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> [Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/poetry-is-an-orphan-of-silence-the-words-never-quite-equal-the/)

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> [“The truth is dark under your eyelids. What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there's no one to ask.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/the-truth-is-dark-under-your-eyelids-what-are-you-going-to-do-about/)

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> [Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/wanted-a-needle-swift-enough-to-sew-this-poem-into-a-blanket/)

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> [In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/in-their-effort-to-divorce-language-and-experience-deconstructionist/)

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> [“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/the-ambition-of-much-of-today-s-literary-theory-seems-to-be-to-find/)

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> [Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/poems-are-other-people-s-snapshots-in-which-we-see-our-own-lives/)

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> [“The Something" Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heavens. What they thought about Stayed the same, Stayed immense and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/the-something-here-come-my-night-thoughts-on-crutches-returning-from/)

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> [There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/there-are-knives-that-glitter-like-altars-in-a-dark-church-where-they/)

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> [“هندوانه بودای سبز بر پیشخوان میوه فروش لبخندش را گاز میزنیم و دندانهایش را تف میکنیم :: Watermelons Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/watermelons-green-buddhas-on-the-fruit-stand-we-eat-the-smile-and/)

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> [Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/words-make-love-on-the-page-like-flies-in-the-summer-heat-and-the/)

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> [“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/the-idea-is-to-spin-the-wheel-of-metaphors-and-images-until-sparks-of/)

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> [Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/found-objects-chance-creations-ready-mades-mass-produced-items/)

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> [The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/the-plain-truth-is-we-are-going-to-die-here-i-am-a-teeny-spec/)

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