Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
About Charles Simic
Dusan Simic (Serbian Cyrillic: Dushan Simitsh, pronounced [duSan si:mitc]; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn’t End and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963-1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues.
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)