"Was it for this the clay grew tall?" — Wilfred Owen
"Was it for this the clay grew tall?"
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Wilfred Owen
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56 Quotes by Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen has 56 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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More Clay Quotes
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
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A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially…
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want,…
— Esther Hicks
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Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.
— Shailene Woodley
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay…
— Janet Morris
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
— Aristophanes
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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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