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The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
Charles Simic
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Charles Simic
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: May 9
Anglicist
Essayist
Journalist
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University Teacher
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Belgrade
Serbia
Dušan Simić
Čarls Simić
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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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Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence.
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I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.
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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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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
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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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Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
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Silence is the only language god speaks.
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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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Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
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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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If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.
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A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.
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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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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
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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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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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