Quotes by : Charles Simic

Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.

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

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

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

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.....

Inside is where we meet everyone else it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

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

Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking that....

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