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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
Charles Simic
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Charles Simic
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: May 9
Anglicist
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Belgrade
Serbia
Dušan Simić
Čarls Simić
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Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
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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. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.
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One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
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If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.
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If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
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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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Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
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The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.
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Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it
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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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Silence is the only language god speaks.
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There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.
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To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
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There’s no preparation for poetry.
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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
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I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.
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