"Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems."

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Karl Shapiro

#Voice Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.”

Source : "Armed Combat". Sounds Magazine Interview, July 17, 1982.
“Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.”

Source : Isaac Bickerstaffe, Newbery (1767). “The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By the Author of Love in a Village. A New Edition”, p.7
“To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.”
“Adults are just children who earn money.”
“Inspiration is nothing without work.”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns
“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
“I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.”

Source : "Song: "Eating People" ("The Psychopathology of Everyday Life")". January 21, 2003.
“People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.”

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