龍退治をする者は詩になるが、爆弾を落とす者は詩にならない。 - Ｗ・Ｈ・オーデン (1907 – 73)
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. - W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 – 73)
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