Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
To our graves we walk
In the thick footprints of departed men.
These taught us how to live; and (oh, too high
The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die.
Like Moses to thyself convey,
And kiss my raptur'd soul away.