Karl Shapiro Quotes

Karl Shapiro Quotes & Sayings

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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

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? — Karl Shapiro

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. — Karl Shapiro

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

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. — Karl Shapiro

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

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel. — Karl Shapiro

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

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

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear. — Karl Shapiro

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

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things. — Karl Shapiro

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems. — Karl Shapiro

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise. — Karl Shapiro

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro

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

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