4 Quotes By John Andrew Holmes


Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes on peace

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
John Andrew Holmes on poetry

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Andrew Holmes on society

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes on war