War Flags

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or flags:

“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“The flags are natures newly found.
Rifles grow sharper on the sight.
There is a rumble of autumnal marching,
From which no soft sleeve relieves us.
Fate is the present desperado.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)