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“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

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“I am knee deep in sea water now, feeling the energy of the tidal waves as they roll inwards towards the shore. A tide that exhales life spent, across its great, red stained sea. Its waves’ beats are out of sync, as they crawl slowly towards land.”

War Metaphor Tidal Waves Nature Connection War Survivor Out Of Sync Inland Life Spent Tidal Energy

Book:All the Hope We Carry

Source: All the Hope We Carry

“During the war, the government could commit U.S. strength almost at will; anything could be justified as a war measure. The problem was how to get the same kind of acceptance for government interventionist policy when the shooting stopped.”

War Justification Ww2 Government Overreach Interventionist

Author:T. R. Fehrenbach

“War guilt can lead to ever more militant acts of self-justification. Once blood has been shed in dubious circumstances, those involved often try to brazen it out: first, through blaming the injured party for forcing them to act thus; and second, through affirming the validity of their violence by persisting with it.”

War Violence Blood Blame Guilt Guilty Conscience

Book:The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

Source: The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

“Literature is an act of resistance against dehumanization. War and trauma numb our senses and freeze our feelings. Literature restores us, awakens our feelings, and returns to us our sense of individuality and integrity.”

War Literature Protest Literature About Literature

Author:Azar Nafisi

“You took to the streets to free yourself of expectations and obligations. You took to the streets because you wanted to be left alone - or rather because you wanted the privacy that could only come from living publicly, from having people pretend not to see you.”

War Street Life

Book:The Theory of Flight

Source: The Theory of Flight

“War was hell and magic wasn't real. I didn't need to be some famous man to say that. — Alice”

War Magic Aliceinwonderland

Book:Alice in the Land of Clovers

Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers

“[...], leurs yeux sévères, inquisiteurs, qui paraissaient fouiller le voile des femmes, ces mêmes voiles qu'ils exigeaient et qu'ils semblaient ensuite ôter du regard. Ils croient avoir le monopole de l'honneur et de la virilité. Le monopole de Dieu.”

Book:Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre

Source: Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre

“A two-year-old doesn’t know much, but it knows when its world has just been turned upside down.”

World War Nation

Book:Shadowplay

Source: Shadowplay

“The Dais The moon hung Like a silver metal On a shadow It is the sun Who bows His head To receive the gold And the bronze Goes to mankind Plowshares turned To spearheads The dusty Pulpit of man”

War Poetry Dust

Book:Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.

Source: Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.

“The song of war is groaning - wailing - and if too loud will be silenced - because that shames the parade.”

War Wailing Conscientious

Author:Theresa Rough PhD