Karl Shapiro Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Karl Shapiro:

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Karl Shapiro

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.

Karl Shapiro

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

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?

Karl Shapiro

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

Karl Shapiro

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Karl Shapiro

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Karl Shapiro

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

Karl Shapiro