...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences. - Randall Jarrell

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

At night there are no more farmers, no more farms. At night the fields dream, the fields are the forest. The boy stands looking at the fox As if, if he looked long enough — he looks at it. Or is it the fox is looking at the boy? The trees can't tell the two of them apart.

[IRENE ROSENBAUM:] ...“you Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause”...