Karl Shapiro Quote

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single Casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.


Collected Poems 1940-1978, Elegy for a Dead Soldier, Stanza V (p. 90)


We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single Casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or...

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single Casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or...

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single Casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or...

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single Casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or...