"My soul is now her day, my day……" — Karl Shapiro
"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
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Karl Shapiro
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23 Quotes by Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro has 23 quotes on this site.
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The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of…
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Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and…
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the…
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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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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold…
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What…
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The…
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How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers…
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A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a…
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Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and…
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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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