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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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 started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?
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When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.
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I don't think you're very strong unless you've cried a few tears. You've never really lived.
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I can adapt to any situation.
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There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
