Carolina Quotes...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute — though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Poetry in War and Peace”, p. 129
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 129
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“...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D6F735D834. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d6f735d834
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