Chairs Quote by Karl Shapiro Download Open image “Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.” — Karl Shapiro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chairs Keelhaul Poets Poet Poetry Poets Poets Vestry Vestry Chairs
I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Laodicea furnished charioteers; Tyre and Berytus, comedians; Caesarea, pantomimes; Heliopolis, singers; Gaza, gladiators, Ascalon, wrestlers; and Castabala, rope-dancers.” — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“this chair where i sit and write my poems is beat up and scratched, held together with wire, tape and hope. you figure it… — John Yamrus Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
“Tieken has suggested, on the basis of the problems we have outlined, that all the Sangam poems in the major anthologies were composed to order by poets who were perfectly aware of the fictive nature of their subject (tuṟai) and its context. Thus eighth- or ninth-century poets at the Pandya court, in Tieken’s reconstruction, deliberately composed poems with an internal… — David Dean Shulman Copy Share
“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart,… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er. — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
