Since Pharaoh's bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings—patient or impatient, but dyings—have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is taught to live by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death?


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

Randall Jarrell Quotes

Since Pharaoh's bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings—patient or impatient, but dyings—have happened, by the hundreds of...

Since Pharaoh's bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings—patient or impatient, but dyings—have happened, by the hundreds of...

Since Pharaoh's bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings—patient or impatient, but dyings—have happened, by the hundreds of...

Since Pharaoh's bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings—patient or impatient, but dyings—have happened, by the hundreds of...