Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry: Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness...We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness...We are against war and t — Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness...We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry

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One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. — Walter Scott
Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered — Anton Chekhov
Ares (the God of War) hates those who hesitate. — Euripides
War is not healthy for children and other living things. — Lorraine Art Schneider
La modernité, c’est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l’ar — Charles Baudelaire
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust Descend; — Omar Khayyám
My son, there's nothing insignificant, Nothing! But yet in every earthly thing F — Friedrich Schiller
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. — Samuel Johnson
Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose i — Leonardo da Vinci
Nec scire fas est omnia. — One cannot know everything. Horace
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world wei — James Russell Lowell
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like — Napoleon