Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking that a grove of trees had grown up around me. “Doubt nothing, believe everything, ” was my friend’s idea of metaphysics, although his brother ran away with his wife. He still bought her a rose every day, sat in the empty house for the next twenty years talking to her about the weather. I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it! My friend’s empty house with every one of its windows lit. The dark trees multiplying all around it. . Charles Simic
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
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Robert Anton Wilson
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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Robert Anton Wilson
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Martin Heidegger
...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Robert Anton Wilson
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
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Hazrat Inayat Khan
More Quotes By Charles Simic
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
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.
