“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”– Charles Simic Related Quotes “I’ve often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it’s been doing to my poetry when I’m not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.”– George Murray “Most people can’t tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can’t be related to other forms of historical poetry.”– Thurston Moore “A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”– Jean Cocteau