Tell the Ouster Clergy: the Tombs are not a god. They are a theater . Tell the Hegemony: the war is not a strategy. It is a compulsion . And tell the poets: the one perfect verse already exists. It is this:
The Consul told me the old story: the priest who crucified himself on the tesla trees, the soldier who fell in love with a cyborg, the poet who sold his soul for a single perfect verse. He told it well—with the hollow music of a man reciting a litany he no longer believed. Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos
Step through, it said, and you will see the war’s true cause. Not the Hegemony. Not the Ousters. Not even the AIs. Tell the Ouster Clergy: the Tombs are not a god