Charles Simic's Quote - Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the ex

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the ex

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

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

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

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson

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[Poetry] feeds on the purest substance of the sentiments of the soul. It quenches its thirst with a nectar that has no dregs. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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