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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
Poet
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Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Fullest
Realized
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Boys
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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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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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
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I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
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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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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law
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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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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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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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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
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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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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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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 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 old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. 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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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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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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