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My subject is war, and the pity of war.

Wilfred Owen

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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
Pity
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War

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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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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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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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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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Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
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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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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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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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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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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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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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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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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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