Quotes by Charles Simic

Charles Simic

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

Invitations

Sight

Voyages

Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.

Believe

Eye

Writing

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Agree

Murder

Tribes

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

Color

Luck

People

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.

Fun

Lying

Principles

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

Believe

Dark

Night

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

Agency

Insomnia

Night

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

Crow

Evil

Snow

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Orphan

Poetry Is

Silence

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

Never Quit

Poetry

Silence

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Agree

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Heart

Here I Am

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Insomnia

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Lying

Making Love

Mind

Mirrors

Moving

Murder

Never Quit

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Poetry

Poetry Is

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Shoes

Sight

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Snow

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Quotes by Charles Simic

Charles Simic

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

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

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.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

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

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

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

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

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