“There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed” ChurchDarkBrokenBedRiversCleanKillingBonesBlockKnivesAltarsHealedGlitterCripplesImbeciles Author:Charles Simic
“A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.” FirstsLife IsCoursesPleasureViewsTheoryOughtBedOrdinaryNobleDamnKitchenSentimentsTestedDetachedOrdinary Life Author:Charles Simic
