Charles Simic Quotes
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
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'You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.' quoted in (February 2010)5
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'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
