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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 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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Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
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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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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
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So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
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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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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
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It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
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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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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.
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