"All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful."

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Source : Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

Wilfred Owen

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“I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.”
“Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?”
“You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.”

Source : Demosthenes (2015). “Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)”, p.1827, Delphi Classics
“You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.”
“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”
“Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.”
“I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?”

Source : "Politicians Regret, Reflect On Iraq War Vote". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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