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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
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Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot
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All a poet can do today is warn.
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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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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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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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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
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I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
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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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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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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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As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
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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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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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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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Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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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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