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Poetry Quotes by Charles Simic
- Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
- There’s no preparation for poetry.
- We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay…
- Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
- Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
- Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
- Poetry is an orphan of silence.
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