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War Quotes by Wilfred Owen
- 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.
- Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
- Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My subject is war, and the pity of war.
- The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
- My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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