“Conquerors live by conquest; the first failure is a signal for the conquered to rise against them.”
Source: Star Bridge (1955), Chapter 6, “Flight” (p. 78)
“The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”
Source: Poems 1913-1956
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