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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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
Harold Wilson
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
Steve Earle
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.
Bruce Babbitt
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic