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Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    “Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Soldier, there is a war between the mind
    And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
    For that the poet is always in the sun,
    Patches the moon together in his room
    To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
    Up down. It is a war that never ends.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Away with us he’s going,
    The solemn-eyed:
    He’ll hear no more the lowing
    Of the calves on the warm hillside
    Or the kettle on the hob
    Sing peace into his breast,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)