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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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. – 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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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. – Johann Georg Hamann

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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh

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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. – George Washington

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