“I am really rather afraid, but more afraid to stay at home with my conscience.” Capturing the moral compulsion that overrode personal fear · Letter to a friend, on volunteering for war, 1914 Conscience Courage Duty
“It is a poem of war, and I hope it will be of some use.” Reflecting McCrae’s hope that poetry might serve a purpose amid wartime suffering · Letter concerning In Flanders Fields Hope Poetry War
