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All the strong agonized men
Wear the hard clothes of war,
Try to remember what they are fighting for.
But in dark weeping helpless moments of peace
Women and poets believe and resist forever. - Muriel Rukeyser
Attribution: Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), U.S. poet. “Letter to the Front,” part 1, lines 7-11 (1944). Written during World War II.

Categories: Poetry And Poets, Values Of Women, War

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