Wilfred Owen Quotes Quotes

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

Does Every Forth Fresh Grow Jerks New Poem Poet Produce Put Ring Same Season Spring Stuff Tissue Trees

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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

After Almost East Fighting History Mania Playing Reading See Serve Soldiers Then Years

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All a poet can do today is warn.

~ Wilfred Owen

Poet Today Warn

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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

~ Wilfred Owen

Above Ask Barren Held Want Wastes

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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

~ Wilfred Owen

Becoming Lore Me Theological

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

~ Wilfred Owen

Ambition Any Defined Hits May Nose Number Receive Willingness

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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.

~ Wilfred Owen

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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

Battlefield Do You Know Hold Keats Know Language Me Rest Sense Them Together Which Would Wrote You

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Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

~ Wilfred Owen

Active After Continue Enthusiasm Ever Flying Only Profession War Would

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

~ Wilfred Owen

Am Any Conscious I Am Off Only Poetical Reading Rounds Satisfaction Scientific Thinking Vagueness

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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

~ Wilfred Owen

Am Ask Congenial Fitted Life Me Ministry Myself

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

~ Wilfred Owen

Analysis Chemical Conclusion Find Geometry Law Philosophy Physical Poem Than

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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

~ Wilfred Owen

Boy First Fullest Life Poet Realized

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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

~ Wilfred Owen

Anything Anything Else Else Good Got Must Soldier Unthinkable

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

~ Wilfred Owen

Pity Poetry Subject War

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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

~ Wilfred Owen

Behind Both Fear Force Home Never Poetry Thank

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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

~ Wilfred Owen

Cannot Numbers Old Old People People Read Seldom Those Who

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She is elegant rather than belle.

~ Wilfred Owen

Elegant Rather She Than

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The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

~ Wilfred Owen

English Feet Head Italians Kick Kiss Mean Say Truly Your Yours

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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

Anybody Dole Effects I Can Less Making Me News Ought Over Service Slaughter Than War

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Wilfred Owen

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Soldier

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18 March, 1893

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04 November, 1918

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