"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
"At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over."
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Source: Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
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