Battle Quote by George Orwell

“A battle, as relayed by a poet, is a glorious thing, full of heroic stands, daring charges, and valiant sacrifice. But a battlefield, as…

— Nicholas Eames

“Battles (as soldiers know, and newspaper editors do not) are usually fought, not as they ought to be fought, but as they can be…

— Charles Kingsley

“Mediocrity To Cavalry: A Life Not Lived Chasing After The Wind”

— Rizwan Niaz Raiyan

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

— Robert Frost

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

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

— Cato the Elder

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement,…

— Randall Mann

“As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As…

— Alison Weir

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;…

— William Shakespeare

“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem…

— Tony Hoagland