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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

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 universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.
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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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Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.
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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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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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