Karl Shapiro Quotes & Sayings
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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