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“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.”

People Writing Trying Book War Care Beautiful Century Poet Expression Soldier Telling The Truth Not Interested I Care Something Beautiful

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”

Men Made Different Difficult Differences Environment Sea Society Poet Type Soldier Ass Variety Priests Lions Sheep Sailor Crow Statesmen Workmen Calves Zoology

Author:Honore de Balzac

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?”

Men May Children Littles Long States Use Shows Song Speak Teach Grace He Man Poet Weight Let Me Soldier Tongue Prose Verses Accents Foreigners

Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

“Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.”

Mind War Ends Together Poetry Night Rooms Sun Sky Poet Moon Soldier Patches Day And Night Cadence

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.”

Poetry Progress Feet Military Strength Poet Army Strategy Soldier Mediocrity Emulate Military Strategy

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.”

Art Lying Left Behinds Half Grace Painting Poet Masters Activity Soldier Finished Thinker Replaced Left Behind Statesmen Provinces Completion God's Grace Great Poet

Author:Adolf Hitler

“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.”

“In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.”

“The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.”

Poet Calling Lows Doctors South Soldier Lawyer Engineers Mechanic Yankees Statesmen Planters

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

Knows Three Poet Respect Dignity Soldier Worthy Priests Poetic

Author:Charles Baudelaire