About Quote by Robert Hass

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all…

— Thom Gunn

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

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

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

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

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

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through…

— David Olusoga

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in…

— Joyce Kilmer

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

“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

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

— Robert Frost