"Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels……" — Wilfred Owen
"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 for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war."
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Wilfred Owen
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56 Quotes by Wilfred Owen
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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…
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my…
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is…
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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the…
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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