...the wonderful Charles Simic!  Simic was named yesterday as the nation's 15th poet laureate.  According to James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, Mr. Simic was chosen because

“He’s very hard to describe, and that’s a great tribute to him. His poems have a sequence that you encounter in dreams, and therefore they have a reality that does not correspond to the reality that we perceive with our eyes and ears.”

I couldn't agree more.  One of my favorite Simic quotes comes from his essay, "The Power of Ambiguity," in which he states, "The secret of...art is not in what you put in, but in how much you leave out."  In another essay from this same collection (The Metaphysician in the Dark), he says simply, "My view is that poetry is inevitable, irreplaceable, and necessary as daily bread."  You gotta love that.  

Read the article, in which Simic also states that he largely began writing to impress girls, here.