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Wilfred Owen Quotes
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Type: Soldier Quotes Category: English Soldier Quotes Date of Birth: March 18, 1893 Date of Death: November 4, 1918 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Wilfred Owen Related Authors: Oliver Cromwell Robert Baden-Powell Arthur Wellesley Philip Sidney Robert Jenkins Thomas Blood Harry Banks |
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 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 All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. Wilfred Owen All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. Wilfred Owen Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. Wilfred Owen Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill. Wilfred Owen 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 Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. Wilfred Owen I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. Wilfred Owen I don't ask myself, Is the life congenial to me? but, Am I fitted for,am I called to, the Ministry? Wilfred Owen I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. Wilfred Owen I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. Wilfred Owen If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Wilfred Owen My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. Wilfred Owen Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. Wilfred Owen She is elegant rather than belle. Wilfred Owen The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. Wilfred Owen The isolation from any whose interests are the same as mine, the constant, inevitable mixing with persons whose influence will tend in the opposite direction-this is a serious drawback. Wilfred Owen 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 Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen 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 |
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