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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

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
Thank
Poetry
Behinds
Behind
Force
Fear
Home
Never

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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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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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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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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 the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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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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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot
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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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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.
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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law
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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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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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My subject is war, and the pity of war.
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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
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