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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."
"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
Explore more quotes by Karl Shapiro
"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"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."
"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."
"Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name."
"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?"
"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."
"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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