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Charles Simic Quote: “One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.”

51. “One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.”

52. “Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.”

53. “I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.”

54. “I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.”

55. “In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “Time – the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn’t move, but its eyes are wide open.”

56. “Time – the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn’t move, but its eyes are wide open.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.”

57. “It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.”

58. “A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “Thoreau loved ants. He’d meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.”

59. “Thoreau loved ants. He’d meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “Most of the American films were made in southern California, so if you were in Europe, watching those palm trees swaying in the wind with someone like Rita Hayworth gliding underneath them in a white convertible, you got all kinds of wonderfully wrong ideas about the place.”

60. “Most of the American films were made in southern California, so if you were in Europe, watching those palm trees swaying in the wind with someone like Rita Hayworth gliding underneath them in a white convertible, you got all kinds of wonderfully wrong ideas about the place.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “War The trembling finger of a woman Goes down the list of casualties On the evening of the first snow. The house is cold and the list is long. All our names are included.”

61. “War The trembling finger of a woman Goes down the list of casualties On the evening of the first snow. The house is cold and the list is long. All our names are included.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “My mother was a braid of black smoke. She bore me swaddled over the burning cities. The sky was a vast and windy place for a child to play. We met many others who were just like us. They were trying to put on their overcoats with arms made of smoke. The high heavens were full of little shrunken deaf ears instead of stars.”

62. “My mother was a braid of black smoke. She bore me swaddled over the burning cities. The sky was a vast and windy place for a child to play. We met many others who were just like us. They were trying to put on their overcoats with arms made of smoke. The high heavens were full of little shrunken deaf ears instead of stars.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”

63. “The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”

— Charles Simic

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