Charles Simic

 Like anyone who grew up and spent years living in a city, watching people continues to be my passion, and that goes for children too. They interest me as individuals, little mysterious beings who’ll grow up to be whatever they’ll grow up to be. In this mean world I feel sorry for them more than I do for the grownups. -Charles Simic

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PM: What are your thoughts about the consistency of particular images in general across your body of work? Is obsession a fair word to use in this context?

CS: Yes, obsession is a fair word to use. All poets, if they live as long as I have, tend to repeat themselves. Behind those images and subjects one returns to again and again, there are mysteries one cannot solve, mysteries of one’s identity and one’s fate. We have one life and that life continues to be a riddle, so it becomes impossible to leave all that behind and start anew as a poet in each new book.

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