Wilfred Owen Quotes

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• The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
• What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
• Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
• The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death…
• No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
• Was it for this the clay grew tall?
• And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
• Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
• If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
• The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and…
• All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
• All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
• Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
• Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
• Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
• I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
• Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
• When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I…
• The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter
• This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything…

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