Mute in that golden silence hung with green,
Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes
Remembrance of all beauty that has been,
And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

Siegfried Sassoon

Tag: poetry wwi world-war-one great-war sassoon



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...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.

Elena Mauli Shapiro

Tag: war france trenches great-war first-world-war



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So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Robert Walser

Tag: food communism great-war leninism



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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

A.J.P. Taylor

Tag: wisdom power war fight wise fighting powerful great-war great-power



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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Fay Weldon

Tag: feminism great-war male-war



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