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Famous Karl Shapiro Quotes
“Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.”
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
“Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.”
“Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.”
Source: Poetry
Source: The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late
Source: Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro
“Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?”
Source: The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late
Source: Poems, 1940-1953
“My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.”
Source: The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
Source: Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
Source: Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts
“Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.”
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
Source: the Bourgeois Poet