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Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
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A leg I noticed next, fine as a mote,
"And on this frail eyelash he walked," I said,
"And climbed and walked like any mountain-goat."
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Karl Shapiro
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Born:
November 10, 1913
Died:
May 14, 2000
(aged 86)
Bio:
Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
Known for:
A prosody handbook (1965)
Essay on Rime (1945)
The wild card
New & selected poems, 1940-1986 (1987)
Creative glut (1979)
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