Charles Simic Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

  Charles Simic

  Dark, Silence, Age

• Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

  Charles Simic

  Today, Literature, Influence

• The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

  Charles Simic

  Ambition, Literary Theory, Imagination

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.63, Copper Canyon Press

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