Charles Simic Quotes
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
Action Bronson
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols
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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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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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.
Lainie Kazan
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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.
Caitlin Moran
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I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.
John Darnielle
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My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
Jane Hirshfield
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank
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My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.
Laurie Graham
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
