"This book is not about heroes. English poetry……" — Wilfred Owen
"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 about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
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Wilfred Owen
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56 Quotes by Wilfred Owen
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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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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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