Hemingway: If people bring so much courage this world the world has to kill them to break them...

If people bring so much courage this world
the world has to kill them to break them,
so of course it kills them.

The world breaks everyone and afterward
many are strong at the broken places.

But those that will not break it kills.

It kills the very good and the very gentle
and the very brave impartially.

-Hemingway


Very appropriately I found this qoute
on a flyleaf at the beginning of 

A Thousand Days
- John F. Kennedy in the White House
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.