Dime-Store Alchemy Quotes

“Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“Silence is the only language god speaks.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
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― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“Making art in America is about saving one's soul.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, if recognized.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“There was a movie theater here once. It played silent films. It was like watching the world through dark glasses on a rainy evening. One night the piano player mysteriously disappeared. We were left with the storming sea that made no sound, and a beautiful woman on a long, empty bench whose tears rolled down silently as she watched me falling asleep in my mother's arms.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“There was a movie theater here once. It played silent films. It was like watching the world through dark glasses on a rainy evening.

One night the piano player mysteriously disappeared. We were left with the storming sea that made no sound, and a beautiful woman on a long, empty bench whose tears rolled down silently as she watched me falling asleep in my mother's arms.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy:The Art of Joseph Cornell