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Wilfred Owen
English
Soldier
About the author
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Want
All a poet can do today is warn.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Today
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Trees
#Spring
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Years
#Fighting
#History
#Reading
#Soldiers
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Home
#Poetry
#Force
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Thinking
#Reading
#Satisfaction
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#May
#Ambition
Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Sense
#Language
#Rest
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#War
#Profession
#Flying
#Enthusiasm
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Life
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Law
#Philosophy
#Geometry
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Life
#First
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#War
#Pity
#Poetry
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#People
#Old
#Numbers
She is elegant rather than belle.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Feet
#English
#Kiss
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.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#War
#Service
#News
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Hope
#Old
#Age
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier
#Nothing
#Financial
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
Wilfred Owen,
English
Soldier