"Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other."

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Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press

Charles Simic

#Distance Quotes

“They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.”
“I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.”
“The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.”
“And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.”
“I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.”

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“There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.”
“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
“Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.”

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