Wilfred Owen Quotes

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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

Together, Sense, Language

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

War, Poetry, Subject

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

History, After, Fighting

All a poet can do today is warn.
Wilfred Owen

Today, Poet, Warn

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

Bullied, Outraged

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

Mean, Kiss, Head

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

Spring, Same, Put

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

Ask, Above, Barren

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

May, Ambition, Nose

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

War, After, Enthusiasm

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

Thinking, Off, Reading

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

Life, Ask, Ministry

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

Philosophy, Law, Find

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

Life, Boy, Realized

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

Good, Soldier, Else

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

Home, Fear, Poetry

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

Cannot, Old, Read

She is elegant rather than belle.
Wilfred Owen

Rather, She, Elegant

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

War, Service, Making

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

Nothing, Impossible, Point

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: March 18, 1893

Died: November 4, 1918

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