Karl Shapiro Quotes

Karl Shapiro
American Poet
Born: Nov 10, 1913
Died: May 14, 2000
Belly God His Innocent Love You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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. Karl Shapiro
God Good Poet Those Possibility Tries Never He Within Sticks Real His Hands Human Hold Loves Race Realm Human Race
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. Karl Shapiro
You Hate Worth Crime Own Other Know Make Knows Repeating Child Capital Your Each Image Consequently
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel. Karl Shapiro
Hungry Head Like Dead Tight Belly Jewel
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? Karl Shapiro
Old Innocent Shall Unspoken Becomes Question Die Who
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. Karl Shapiro
Love Smile Silence You Settle Touch Tick Again Breathing Satisfaction Exquisite Sleep
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise. Karl Shapiro
Day Soul Lie Down Rise My Soul Now Her Night
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. Karl Shapiro
Speak Grass Lastly Shall Name None His List Tomb Founder
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear. Karl Shapiro
Me Doctor Fear Punched Vein Sow Captain Sat Belly
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? Karl Shapiro
Love Father Back Sign Give Thy Force To Love Us Mud Body Grows Palm

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