"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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Pulitzer Prize winners20th-century poets from the United StatesJohns Hopkins University alumniJohns Hopkins University facultyPoets from Baltimore
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Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (10 November 1913 – 14 May 2000) was an American poet, appointed as the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.
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