Charles Simic
Poet
1938-05-09 – 2023-01-09
Charles Simic was a Serbian American poet known for concise, surreal imagery and dark humor. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Quotes by Charles Simic
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Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
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I love America, he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
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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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Poetry is an orphan of silence.
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Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
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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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A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
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I love America, he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
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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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A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
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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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Poetry is an orphan of silence.
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Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
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Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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