Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays And Memoirs Quotes
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.