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Quote by Charles Simic
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. - C

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

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

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A knitter only appears to be knitting yarn. Also being knitted are winks, mischief, sighs, fragrant possibilities, wild dreams. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle – that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. – Mason Cooley

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All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle. – Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851

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