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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted, a problem to be met with ambush and stratagem, enveloped or scattered. - T. S. Eliot (London Calling Quotes)

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted, a problem to be met with ambush and stratagem, enveloped or scattered.

Source:A Note on War Poetry (1942); in Collected poems 1909-1962 (ed. Faber & Faber, 1963), Page 229
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  • Profession: Poet, Writer
  • Born: September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
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