Andrea Gibson Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• ...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

  Andrea Gibson

  War, Color, Shapes

• How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

  Andrea Gibson

  War, Return

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.14, SCB Distributors

• ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Mother, Dream

• You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime

  Andrea Gibson

  War, Summertime, Cold

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