Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
After every war someone has to tidy up. - Wislawa Szymborska

After every war someone has to tidy up. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Poetry
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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. – George McGovern

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Nothing is more useless in developing a nations economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. – King Hussein I

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New terms used like, overseas contingency operation instead of the word war – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We cant spin our way out of this threat. – Sarah Palin

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Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that theyre going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. – John W. Vessey, Jr.

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