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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.
-Joyce Kilmer
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At Present, I Am A Poet Trying

Joyce Kilmer
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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