For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
Charles SimicPoetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles SimicWords make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
Charles SimicI do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable of. Awaken them, in a sense, to the fact that there's a world in front of their eyes, that they have a body, they're going to die, the sky is beautiful, it's fun to be in a grassy field when the sun is shiningโthose kinds of things.
Charles Simic