Battle/naming

Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or naming:

“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)