A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.
A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.
I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.