Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.