Charles Simic Quotes

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

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

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.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.