American - Poet | May 9, 1938 -
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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