Some women can't say the word lesbian. . . even when their mouth is full of one.
For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.
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.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
I never thought a role model should be negative.
I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.