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Charles Simic
American
Poet
Born:
May 9
,
1938
Enough
Lighthouse
Needle
Poem
Sew
Silence
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Edgar Allan Poe
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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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