Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

"A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish."

Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

"One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other."

Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

"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."

Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

"The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination."

Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs