Poetry Quote by Charles Simic — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”

“There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.”

“It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.”

“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,”

“A man walks into a bar and says:”

“How you die out in me:”