Chilean Civil War

Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil and/or war:

    “Colonel Shaw
    and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
    on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
    propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    “Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)