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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Unthinkable
Soldier
Historical
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Anything
Must
Good

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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 old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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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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I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
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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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