Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. Charles Simic More Quotes by Charles Simic More Quotes From Charles Simic Only brooms Charles Simic crow evil snow The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. Charles Simic stones want writing Poetry is an orphan of silence. Charles Simic orphan silence poetry-is Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. Charles Simic pages making-love summer I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck Charles Simic color luck people The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket. Charles Simic black mirrors heart Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Charles Simic inside bottle others empty
