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All a poet can do today is warn.

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
Poet
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Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Warning
Poet
Poetry
Today
Warn

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Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
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Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
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I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight Heard music in the silentness of duty Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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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!
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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
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The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.
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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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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
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