... most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute—though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.


Poetry in War and Peace, p. 129 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute—though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only...

Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute—though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only...

Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute—though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only...

Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute—though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only...