Quote#War
There was in the air the glamor of a battle, the holy battle raging…
Quote byJoseph Stella · 1877–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Joseph Stella (1911); Quoted in: Ruth L. Bohan. Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920, (2006). p. 193.
English (original)
There was in the air the glamor of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunged full in it.
— Joseph Stella
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