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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
Writer
Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen
Subjects
War
Pity
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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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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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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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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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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law
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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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So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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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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The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
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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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Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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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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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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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 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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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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