Quotes by Karl Shapiro - Page 1

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Chairs
Poet
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Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Poetry Is
Seeing
Way
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Lying
My Soul
Night
Soul
Rise
Lie
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Dies
Innocence
Innocent
Unspoken
Die
Becomes
Old
Question
Shall
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Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Men
Insane
Self
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Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Provincetown
Soul
Voice
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Belly
Hungry
Jewel
Tight
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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Belly
Sat
Doctor
Captain
Punched
Sow
Vein
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Grass
Founder
Lastly
List
None
Shall
Tomb
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The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Answers
Maxims
Two Sides
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Wise
Innocent
Library
Poetic
Unique
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Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
War
Crusades
Excuse
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The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Credit
Deals
Modern
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A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Men
House
Play
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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 / Poet
Devil
Finals
Funeral
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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 / Poet
Body
Father
Giving
Grows
Mud
Palm
Sign
Thy
To Love
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Karl Shapiro / Poet
Human Race
Possibility
Sticks
Loves
Realm
Tries
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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 / Poet
Hands
Race
Real
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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 / Poet
Smile
Breathing
Exquisite
Satisfaction
Silence
Sleep
Tick
Touch
Settle
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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 / Poet
Events
Important
Philosopher
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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 / Poet
Children
Crime
Hate
Capital
Consequently
Repeating
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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 / Poet
Dream
Gold
Sleep
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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 / Poet
Overwhelmed
Tomorrow
Yesterday
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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 / Poet
Happiness
Blow
Grief
Heavy
Laughter
Stride
Tears
Wind
Chart
Eyes Heart Man
Join
Lined
Shall
Tide
Wrinkled
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