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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
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
