“In the interests of research
I have walked on many battlefields
that once were liquid with pulped
men’s bodies and spangled with exploded
shells and splayed bone.
All of them have been green again
by the time I got there.
Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day.
Sad marble angels brood like hens
over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.”
Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 55.

[A Conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed: The Power of Principles, Physics Revealed (Part II), April 2, 2021, Ideas Roadshow, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzSDZ_EPiXk] (quote at 51:12 of 52:41)

“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
Source: This Side of Paradise