Charles Simic Quotes

Serbia, Poet
May 9, 1938

Charles Simic (Serbian: Душан "Чарлс" Симић [dǔʃan tʃârls sǐːmitɕ]; born Dušan Simić; May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963-1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

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

Charles Simic
- Experience
- Words
- Poetry

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

Charles Simic
Should some senator or congressman have a sudden attack of conscience and blurt something out, 'dark money' brings them to their senses and reminds them that their job is to facilitate the transfer of public funds into the pockets of the few and to not ask too many questions.

Charles Simic
- Money
- Job
- Dark