The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Charles Simic

Tag: imagination literature literary-theory



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One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Charles Simic

Tag: poetry writing the-other



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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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Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

Charles Simic

Tag: poetry



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To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Charles Simic


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Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

Charles Simic


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Silence is the only language god speaks.

Charles Simic


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Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Charles Simic

Tag: poetry



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While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.

Charles Simic


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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.

Charles Simic

Tag: poet dickinson



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