Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

About Charles Simic

Portrait of Charles Simic

Dušan Simić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Симић, pronounced [dǔʃan sǐːmitɕ]; 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...

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