Quotes by Wilfred Owen

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...

#Death, #Poetry, #World War I

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears...

#Afterlife, #Death, #Poetry

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

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She is elegant rather than belle.

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

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

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

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

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

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical...

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

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds...

#Wilfred Owen