The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
Charles SimicStichwörter: imagination literature literary-theory
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
Charles SimicStichwörter: poetry writing the-other
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
Charles SimicPoetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Stichwörter: poetry
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
Charles SimicInsomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
Charles SimicSilence is the only language god speaks.
Charles SimicPoetry is an orphan of silence.
Charles SimicStichwörter: poetry
While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.
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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