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

She is elegant rather than belle.
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

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

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

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

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