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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

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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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot
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I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
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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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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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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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Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.
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I, too, saw God through mud
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All a poet can do today is warn.
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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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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Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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