What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags
But an infection of the common sky
That sagged ominously upon the earth.


"Recalling War," lines 11–13, from Collected Poems 1938 (1938).

Robert Graves Quotes

What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth.

What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth.

What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth.

What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth.