Harvey Shapiro (poet) Quotes

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Never using a stuntman,
I went through this life myself.

Harvey Shapiro

Above the warehouse and beneath the stars The poets creep on the harp of the Bridge. But see, They fall into the National Cold Storage Company One by one. The wind off the river is too cold, Or the times too rough, or the Bridge Is not a harp at all. Or maybe A monstrous birth inside the warehouse Must be fed by everything—ships, poems, Stars, all the years of our lives.

Harvey Shapiro

Harvey Shapiro

Harvey Shapiro

Born: January 27, 1924

Died: January 7, 2013 (aged 88)

Bio: Harvey Shapiro was an American poet and editor of The New York Times. He wrote a dozen books of poetry from 1953 to 2006, writing in epigrammatic style about things in his everyday life.

Known for:

A Momentary Glory: Last Poems
The sights along the harbor (2006)
Poets of World War II (2003)
How Charlie Shavers died and other poems (2001)

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