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Letter "K" » Karl Shapiro Quotes
«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»
«We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«O hideous little bat, the size of snot, With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«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.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air, Sees down the street, And in the camera of my eye depicts, Row-houses and row-lives: Glass after glass, door after door the same.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«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.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«The doctor punched my vein,The captain called me Cain, Upon my belly sat the sow of fear.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
«There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.»
Author: Karl Shapiro
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