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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

— Randall Jarrell

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

— George Friedman

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

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

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

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

— Aisha Mirza

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

“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

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

— Atticus Poetry

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

— Robert Frost

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

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”

— Louis MacNeice