What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

Nadia Hashimi
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The quote, "What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war," by the great poet Wilfred Owen is a powerful statement. He was warning that during wartime, emotions can run wild and people can snap and start fighting for very little reason. He said it like this: "What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war." He was trying to express the fact that wars are not always caused by the most noble of causes and they come about because people let their emotions and feelings take control. Today we see this play out all over the world as we see so many people fight one another over things that don't matter at all.

Source: When The Moon Is Low

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