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

Charles Simic
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  2. Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to... - A.J. Darkholme

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  4. I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. - A.D. Posey

  5. And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together. - Laini Taylor

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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