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“Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.”

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Charles Simic

Charles Simic, born on May 9, 1938, is a renowned American poet. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, having won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. more

“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude”

Ifs Men Years Book Might Objects Months Solitude Picks One Man Particles Tangible Confronting

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely”

Ifs Knows Men Way Humans Doe Matter Can Do Realizing Human Beings Known Impossible Willing Cold Solitude Degrees Make Sense Shiver

Author:Paul Auster

“For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.”

Men Looks Hands Natural Space Existence Doors Mets Demand Commitment Depth Surface Satisfied Staying Offering Obliged Confined Tolerable No Commitment

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

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