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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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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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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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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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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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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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All a poet can do today is warn.
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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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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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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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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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And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling
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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 tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
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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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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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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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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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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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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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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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