For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Charles Simic
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  5. Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? - Charles Bukowski

More Quotes By Charles Simic
  1. A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

  2. One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

  3. Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

  4. In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

  5. Poetry is an orphan of silence.

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