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Karl Shapiro
(American Poet)

Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 26
Times favorited:: 1

Karl Jay Shapiro was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

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All quotes by Karl Shapiro

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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.”

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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.”

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“Give me the free and poor inheritance, Of our own kind, not furniture, Of education, or the prophet's pose, The general cause of words, the hero's stance, The ambitions incommensurable with flesh.”

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“My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.”

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“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.”

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“And in a comic mood, In mid-air take to bed a wife.”

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“However others calculate the cost, To us the final aggregate is one, One with a name, one transferred to the blest; And though another stoops and takes the gun, We cannot add the second to the first.”

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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?”

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“Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?”

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“He shall eat flowers, Chew honey and spit out gall. They shall all smile, and love and pity him. His death shall be by drowning.”

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