Anonymous. The Last Word

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    I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.
    Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    You have no word for soldiers to enjoy
    The feel of, as an apple, and to chew
    With masculine satisfaction. Not “good-by!”
    “Come back!”or “careful!” Look, and let him go.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)