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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.

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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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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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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All a poet can do today is warn.
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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, 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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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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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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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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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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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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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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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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