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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
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The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
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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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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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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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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
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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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All a poet can do today is warn.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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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
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
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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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I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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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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The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.
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