Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

    “They are preparing to begin again:
    Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
    In a predicated romance.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “a child who traced voyages
    indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
    remembers the first river, the first
    field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
    that new smell, and remembers
    the walls of the garden, the first light.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)