Poetry

I wish I could
hide the children in my heart until the wars end
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#NoToWar

“After working on the Manhattan Project:

I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed - and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless.
But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So l've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead."

- Richard P. Feynman

Your sentiment about the impact of war resonates with this reflection from Richard P. Feynman shared by july: "After working on the Manhattan Project... I looked out at the buildings and I began to think... Why are they making new things? It's so useless."

A nurse who is interested in poetry and literature
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