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Charles Simic
Charles Simic
American Poet
Born: May 9, 1938
Enough Lighthouse Needle Poem Sew Silence
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
Silence Experience Words Poetry Never Equal Quite Behind Them Orphan
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Charles Simic
Others Inside Constructing Bottle Lighthouse Empty Making Were Ships While
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Charles Simic
Enough Sew Poem Poetry Blanket Wanted Swift Needle

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