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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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The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
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Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing's best left at home with friends.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
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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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Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds not on the cess of war.
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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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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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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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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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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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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