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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.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«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.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«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.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«And in a comic mood, In mid-air take to bed a wife.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«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.»
Author: 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?»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«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.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
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