Song Quote by Siegfried Sassoon

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to…

— Siegfried Sassoon

Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass…

— Siegfried Sassoon

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And…

— Siegfried Sassoon

The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.

— Siegfried Sassoon

“I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

“I am banished from the patient men who fight. They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to aching shoulder, side by…

— Siegfried Sassoon

December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall,…

— Siegfried Sassoon

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn dulled, sunken…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”

— Siegfried Sassoon