Quotation by

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry

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Poetry comes from deep feelings or moments that are hard to fully express with words. The language used in poems can only hint at the true emotions or experiences that inspired them, never capturing their full reality.

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