Poetry Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”

— China Miéville

“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the…

— David Malouf

“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own…

— Pat Conroy

“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.”

— Alice Sebold

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“Kudos to the Imperial Guard for having stupid amounts of courage.”

— Rick Riordan

“Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?”

— Khalil Gibran

“We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,bye the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none,…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes his eyes.…

— Anna Hope

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face,…

— Maximilien Robespierre