These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing
Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.