Charles Simic Quote Explained: Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

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· Serbia

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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

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Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

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

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

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The world is beautiful but not sayable. That’s why we need art.

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

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When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

Finding Happiness

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

- Charles Simic

Poet

· Serbia

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

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

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That’s why we need art.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

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

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Beauty makes one lose one’s head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

Poetry is the only art people haven’t learned to consume like soup.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

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