90 Quotes by Charles Simic

I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

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.

Tending a cliff-hanging Grand HotelIn a country ravaged by civil war.My heart as its only bellhop.My brain as its Chinese cook.

Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.

Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.

And all of a suddenIn the midst of that quiet,It seems possibleTo live simply on this earth.

رقة كائن آدمي تجاه آخر في أزمنة الكراهية الجماعية والعنف الجماعي تستحق احترامًا أكثر من كل وعظ الكنائس منذ بدء الزمان.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.