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The Monster Loves His Labyrinth The Monster Loves His Labyrinth by Charles Simic
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“Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“رقة كائن آدمي تجاه آخر في أزمنة الكراهية الجماعية والعنف الجماعي تستحق احترامًا أكثر من كل وعظ الكنائس منذ بدء الزمان.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The singing you hear is the poets washing dishes in the kitchen.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“You can not shoe a flea,” Russians say. Whoever coined the proverb forgot about poets.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“ستجعلنا شرور زماننا نحن إلى تلك التي للماضي”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“الحلم الأمريكى الجديد أن تصبح فى غاية الثراء وينظر إليك على الرغم من ذلك بوصفك ضحية”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“كلما كان الظلم فادحا كان الغضب أعلى”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“لابد أن عدد ساعات اليد وساعات الحوائط الموجودة اليوم هو تحقير للأبدية”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“كيف تقتل كثيرًا من الناس وتنام كطفل، مقولة تتواصل لتكون المثال الأعلى لرجل الدولة. لهذا فهو يحتاج إلى المثقفين لتقسيم القتلة إلى أخيار وأشرار ولتفسير أننا نفعل الى إلى أولئك الناس من أجل مصلحتهم. يتطلب العنف والوحشية أخلاقية جديدة متفوقة دومًا.”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“يا نهامي عذابات الناس لقد حان وقت الولائم الخرافية”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“أنا سجين كل جنة عدن كل يوتوبيا لم تخطر على بال قط”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“فى حديقة الحيوان صادفت حيوانات كثيرة ضجرة من الحياة مثلما كنت أنا”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“أكل كلب شكسبير أفضل ما لديه ولكنه لم يمثل مسرحية قط”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“فى قارب شارون عزمت على منح مقعدي إلى أول سيدة تقترب”
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth