Charles Simic
Dušan "Charles" Simić (Serbian: Душан "Чарлс" Симић ; born 9 May 1938) is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.
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“Taft, laughing, “What troubles [brother] Charles is, he is afraid Roosevelt will get the credit of making me President and not himself.” To Charles: “I will agree not to minimize the part you played in making me President if you will agree not to minimize the part Roosevelt played.””
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“This strange thing must have crept
Right out of hell.
It resembles a bird’s foot
Worn around the cannibal’s neck.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)