Charles Simic Quotes about Silence

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

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

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