"At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over."

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Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

Joyce Kilmer

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“I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.”
“Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.”
“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”
“I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.”
“Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people don't have. They think that being white and male is going to save the world; but life is not The Lion King.”
“Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality”
“I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.”
“In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.”

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