Charles Simic Quotes
- One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
- Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
- Silence is the only language god speaks.
- To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
- Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
- Poetry is an orphan of silence.
- For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
- The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole…
- Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts…
- I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
- The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.
- When you play chess alone it's always your move.
- I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so…
- Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.