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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
Charles Simic
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Charles Simic
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: May 9
Anglicist
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University Teacher
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Belgrade
Serbia
Dušan Simić
Čarls Simić
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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 woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed
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The truth is dark under your eyelids.
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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
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Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
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Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
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The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
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There’s no preparation for poetry.
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If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence.
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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 the street.
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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
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