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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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. – Marianne Moore

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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel

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