“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
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“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
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