Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapirowas an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1913
CountryUnited States of America
add aggregate calculate cannot final however others second takes though
However others calculate the cost, To us the final aggregate is one, One with a name, one transferred to the blest; And though another stoops and takes the gun, We cannot add the second to the first.
bed comic
And in a comic mood, In mid-air take to bed a wife.
credit modern deals
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
voice soul provincetown
Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
happiness laughter grief
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.
innocence innocent unspoken
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
real race hands
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
father giving body
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?
lying night soul
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
children hate crime
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.
important events philosopher
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.
men play house
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
funeral devil flags
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.
war excuse crusades
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.