The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
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The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
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