Instant Quote by Charles Simic Download Open image “A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.” — Charles Simic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instant Lucidity Organisms Poetry
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full… — Aileen Fisher Copy Share Image
Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being... — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“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… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“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… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“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.… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The Something" Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heavens. What they thought about Stayed the same, Stayed immense and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“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.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot. When that drone shot carried us through… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Technology has just been the major progression of the last 15 years - instant communication. That stuff has gone so global. That's what's interesting… — Ti West Copy Share Image
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