41 Quotes by Karl Shapiro

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    I see slip to the curb the long machines, Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette, Shellacked with silk and light, The hard legs of our women.

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    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.

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    Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair!

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    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.

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    The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

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    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.

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