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The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

A person who wants a pure and simple life can start a war within themselves and with society — Lisa C. Miller

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. — Seamus Heaney

My heart was full of softening showers,
I used to swing like this for hours,
I did not care for war or death,
I was glad to draw my breath. — Stevie Smith

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

Still may syllables jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never! — Ben Jonson

If we knew how to find
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle. — Margarita Engle

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree.
It will do you no best, until a shingle you free. — Shahzad Ashraf

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath. — Suheir Hammad

Care: not carnage
Love: not loathing
Peace: not pieces — Maddy Kobar

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie

The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. — Aberjhani

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities. — Phil Kaye

Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--
Age finds place in the rear.
All wars are boyish and are fought by boys — Herman Melville

war, the human antithesis of art — Campbell McGrath

Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse

We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser

You read a hundred
military manuals you won't
find the word kill they trick
you into killing. — Anne Carson

I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. — Howard Zinn

Poetry, is a life long war waged
against ineffable beauty. — Atticus Poetry

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. — Aberjhani

There is a war
in your name

I have martyred you
sold you
to freedom

oh, Freedom — Banoo Zan

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

Loving someone who hates
themselves
is a special kind of violence.
A fight inside the bones.
A war within the blood. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. — Aberjhani

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice. — Joy Harjo

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. — Carol Ann Duffy

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry. — Akshay Vasu

That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic

Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away. — Dejan Stojanovic

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure. — David McDonald

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking — Marvin Bell

On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage. — Aberjhani

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war. — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann