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.
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.
Helenus, with his heavy Thracian blade
Smiting the temples of Deipyrus,
Dash'd off his helmet.
With his own sword,
Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta’en
His head from him.
Boromir had a long sword, in fashion like Andúril but of less lineage.
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,
Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.