Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
Famous quotes by karl shapiro:
“Give me the free and poor inheritance
Of our own kind, not furniture
Of education, or the prophet’s pose,
The general cause of words, the hero’s stance,
The ambitions incommensurable with flesh,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“Oh, it is I,
Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie,
Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape,
Dreamy as puberty—with dirty hair!”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)