Poetry Quote by Bernard Cornwell

“War is a nation’s way of eating.”

— Will Durant

“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Why fight the enemy when you could food them?”

— Veronica Rossi

“They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.”

— Philippa Gregory

“A battle, shield wall to shield wall. Linden wood to linden wood. She imagined meeting a man the size of Forthere, huge with battle…

— Nicola Griffith

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves…

— Philippa Gregory

“Some wars are fought with swords and shields; others are fought with silence, mirrors, and trembling hands.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.”

— Anthony Liccione

“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things…

— Anonymous

“Like a bird or animal, you had to fight for your territory. War brought you slaves, land, food, women–the things you needed to survive.…

— Agatha Christie

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry