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Karl Shapiro Quotes: How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.
         

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.


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Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.



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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.



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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.



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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.



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The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.



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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?



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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?



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Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.



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Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.



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