Charles Simic Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Silence is the only language god speaks.

  Charles Simic

  Silence, Language, Speak

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

  Charles Simic

  Poetry, Silence, Never Quit

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

• 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

• Poetry is an orphan of silence.

  Charles Simic

  Silence, Orphan, Poetry Is

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

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