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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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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
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Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Life
Fullest
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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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I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
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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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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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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot
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And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.
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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
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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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And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling
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So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
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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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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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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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I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
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When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
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