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

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Source : Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller

Charles Simic

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“Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. Its not necessarily about falling in love.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.”
“I've always been told I have a giant placenta.”
“Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.”

Source : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
“Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.”
“Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.”
“In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.”
“I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself at different times and in different processes and to make profound analyses, analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don't necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.”

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