All Wilfred Owen Quotes
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
Wilfred Owen
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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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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.
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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.
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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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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.
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