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Karl Shapiro Quotes

American poet and academic (d. 2000), Birth: 10-11-1913 Karl Shapiro Quotes
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Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.
Karl Shapiro

2.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Karl Shapiro

3.
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
Karl Shapiro

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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro

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The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
Karl Shapiro

Similar Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson William Shakespeare C. S. Lewis Rumi Samuel Johnson George Herbert George Eliot Maya Angelou Horace Charles Bukowski John Milton Alexander Pope Ovid Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sylvia Plath
6.
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Karl Shapiro

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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Karl Shapiro

Quote Topics by Karl Shapiro: Men Sleep Soul Insane Grief Wise Father Crusades Events Breathing War Funeral Overwhelmed Night Devil Yesterday House Chairs Hate Gold Dies Deals Poetry Is Hands Maxims Provincetown Way Real Answers Laughter
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Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.
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10.
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.
Karl Shapiro

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Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.
Karl Shapiro

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Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.
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13.
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.
Karl Shapiro

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The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Karl Shapiro

15.
Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.
Karl Shapiro

16.
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro

18.
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
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19.
Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
Karl Shapiro

20.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
Karl Shapiro