Poetry Quote by David McDonald

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

“where is the poetry of resistance, the poetry of honorable defiance unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men, not respectful of journalist…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies…

— Wilfred Owen

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

— Atticus Poetry

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is…

— Louis Ferdinand Celine

“The stunning corpus of poetry produced during the war likewise paints a very different picture of how the conflict was viewed at the time.…

— Peter Frankopan

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there…

— Aberjhani

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor…

— Wilfred Owen

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal…

— Herbert Read