Best Wilfred Owen Quotes
- I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law Analysis
- Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do Cannot Read
- Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun… Beauty
- Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep… Blood
- Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in… Achieved
- 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… All
- My subject is war, and the pity of war. Inspirational
- Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. Ambition
- Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest… Battlefield
- The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. English
- All a poet can do today is warn. All
- I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? Ask
- Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. Children
- If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his… Ardent
- Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels… Citadels
- The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Decorum
- Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Dead
- Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. Beauty
- These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. Inspirational
- The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the… All
- All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. All
- My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Pity
- Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. Bullied
- If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Anything Else
- She is elegant rather than belle. Belle