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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

~Charles Simic

Topics: Bottle Constructing Empty Inside Lighthouse Making Others Ships Were While

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

~Charles Simic

Topics: Behind Equal Experience Never Orphan Poetry Quite Silence Them Words

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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

~Charles Simic

Topics: Blanket Enough Needle Poem Sew Swift Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 9th, 1938

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