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A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
— Charles Simic The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
Tags: philosophy, fish, confession

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I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.
— Charles Simic
Tags: sleep, reading, love, inspirational, books
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
— Charles Simic
Tags: poetry
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 The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
Tags: poetry, language, deconstruction, criticism
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
— Charles Simic Dime-Store Alchemy
Tags: poetry
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
— Charles Simic The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
Tags: writing, the-other, poetry
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