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> [I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/i-am-not-concerned-with-poetry-my-subject-is-war-and-the-pity-of-war/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

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> [All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/all-the-poet-can-do-today-is-warn-that-is-why-true-poets-must-be/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

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## More by Wilfred Owen

> [Was it for this the clay grew tall?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/was-it-for-this-the-clay-grew-tall/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/the-war-effects-me-less-than-it-ought-i-can-do-no-service-to-anybody/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/escape-there-is-one-unwatched-way-your-eyes-o-beauty-keep-me-good/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/and-by-his-smile-i-knew-that-sullen-hall-by-his-dead-smile-i-knew-we/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/walking-abroad-one-is-the-admiration-of-all-little-boys-and-meets-an/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/those-who-like-the-beasts-have-no-such-hope-pass-their-old-age/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/the-english-say-yours-truly-and-mean-it-the-italians-say-i-kiss-your/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/ambition-may-be-defined-as-the-willingness-to-receive-any-number-of/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading sloughs of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/these-are-men-whose-minds-the-dead-have-ravished-memory-fingers-in/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/was-it-for-this-the-clay-grew-tall-o-what-made-fatuous-sunbeams-toil/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/i-was-a-boy-when-i-first-realized-that-the-fullest-life-liveable-was/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/and-some-cease-feeling-even-themselves-or-for-themselves-dullness/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [“Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/sleep-mothered-them-and-left-the-twilight-sad/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/after-all-my-years-of-playing-soldiers-and-then-of-reading-history-i/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

> [My subject is war, and the pity of war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/my-subject-is-war-and-the-pity-of-war/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

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