Case Quote by David Olusoga

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

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful…

— Robert Hass

“That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure.”

— David McDonald

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

— Robert Frost

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

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

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

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

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

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