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Karl Shapiro Quotes
Page 1 of 1Karl Shapiro
November 10, 1913 - May 14, 2000
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet
|  In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel. | | 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. | | Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? | | Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. | | Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. | | The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear. | | But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. | | My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise. | | 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? | | 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. | | Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die. |
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