the Bourgeois Poet
A source page for quotes linked to Karl Shapiro.
“Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.”
“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.”
“Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?”
“My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.”
“Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.”