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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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – Mark Strand

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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle

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Listen. Dont explain or justify. – William G. Dyer

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