Karl Shapiro Quotes

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

Karl Shapiro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1913 - May 14, 2000

Topics

ExperiencePoetryWiseLearnUnique

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

Jo Brand

MenMindYouBearEntertainingJust

All economic forecasts are subject to considerable uncertainty. There is always a wide range of plausible outcomes for important economic variables, including the federal funds rate.

Jerome Powell

UncertaintyImportantAlwaysEconomic

What's easy to forget once you're minorly famous is how nerve-racking it is to walk up to someone famous and interrupt them. When I'm taking a picture with a fan, it's not uncommon for their hands to be shaking or for me to feel their heart pounding through their rib cage. But the best part is how easy it is for me to make someone's day.

Max Joseph

HeartBestWalkDayMePicture

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

RulesExistenceEssencePrecedes

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

LifeTogetherConfusedMy LifeBack

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

MarriageRelationshipSacrificeUnity

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

Jonas Gahr Store

FamilyCommunitySocietyThinkPlace

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Chris Brown

SingingStartedAbout

Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.

Susan Vreeland

HistoryRelationshipsPersonalAlways

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

Susanna Moore

LiveGovernmentYearI Was Raised

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

Peter Dinklage

PeopleYouCondescendingSurprised

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Sheryl Sandberg

ChangeMenThinkGenderTalkNeed

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