![]() Anyone who has himself entered, however feebly, into the life of the spirit, can realize this. The bodies of the young men who are buried out there have no quarrel with one another now, no part in our quarrels or interest in our patronage, no craving for holocausts of more young men. Our rulers knew that their policy would not be popular, and in the hope of stampeding us into it they permitted this vile appeal – the viler because the sentiment that it tries to pervert is a noble one and purifies the life of a nation when directed rightly. Milne's brilliant article deserves special thanks for its scathing analysis of 'the sanctity of our graves in Gallipoli'. For poetry is a spirit and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol … It means change without hope. ![]() Quotes Poetry is a spirit and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth. 1.9 The Life to Come and other stories (1972). ![]()
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