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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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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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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 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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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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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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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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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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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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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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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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Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds not on the cess of war.
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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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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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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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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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Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
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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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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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