There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
"Karl Jay Shapiro" was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Karl Shapiro on Wikipedia.Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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.
O hideous little bat, the size of snot, With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes.
We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated.
The doctor punched my vein,The captain called me Cain, Upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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