“ He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; I no longer have any real contact with him. There is nothing he likes more than just hearing about i… Erich Maria Remarque
“ And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death. Erich Maria Remarque
“ There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly. …in our hearts we trusted t… Erich Maria Remarque
“ It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness. Jessie Douglas Kerruish
“ This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above… Wilfred Owen
“ But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one. Wilfred Owen
“ We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. Erich Maria Remarque
“ Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been,And stillness from the pools of Paradise. Siegfried Sassoon
