Charles Simić Quote

We name one thing and then another. That's how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there's a lot of space inside words.

Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir (ed. 1990)

We name one thing and then another. That's how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each...

We name one thing and then another. That's how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each...

We name one thing and then another. That's how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each...

We name one thing and then another. That's how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each...