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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
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Boys
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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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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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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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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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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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Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
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I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight Heard music in the silentness of duty Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
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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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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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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
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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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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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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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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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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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