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Karl Shapiro

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

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Donna Grant

"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

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Donna Grant

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

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Donna Grant

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

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Donna Grant

"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

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Donna Grant

"Fear attracts attack."

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Donna Grant

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

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Donna Grant

"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."

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Donna Grant

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

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Donna Grant

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

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"We are too scared to be real!"

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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?"

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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."

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

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

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Karl Shapiro
"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."

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

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

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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."

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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
"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."

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