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title: "3 Clay Quotes By Wilfred Owen"
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> [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/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/wilfred-owen-4642_clay_was-it-for-this-the-clay-grew-tall-39234_39234.png)

> [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/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/wilfred-owen-4642_break_was-it-for-this-the-clay-grew-tall-o-wha_242280.png)

> [Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/futility-move-him-into-the-sun-gently-its-touch-awoke-him-once-at/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97b/wilfred-owen-4642_break_futility-move-him-into-the-sun-gently-it_3209172.jpg)

## Other authors on Clay

## 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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