From "Notes on Poetry and Philosophy"
in Wonderful Words, Silent Truth, by Charles Simic,
quoted in Wisdom & Metaphor, by Jan Zwicky:
My poems (in the beginning) are like a table on which one places interesting things one has found on one's walks: a pebble, a rusty nail, a strangely shaped root, the corner of a torn photograph, etc.... where after months of looking at them and thinking about them daily, certain surprising relationships, which hint at meanings, begin to appear....
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