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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

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Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

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

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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.

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Charles Simić

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Born: May 9, 1938
Died: January 9, 2023 (aged 84)
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