#war

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you. ↗

— Tom Waits

#become #build #building #carefully #crow

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#answer #aspects #aware #consider #cultural

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. ↗

— George Wald

#living #see #wars #which #world

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. ↗

— George Wald

#atomic bombs #bombs #crime #dropping #hiroshima

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. ↗

— George Wald

#always #defense #departments #now #other

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. ↗

— George Wald

#concept #crimes #invention #war

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. ↗

— George Wald

#having #ideological #material #nothing #nuclear