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I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen
Age: 25 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 18
Died: 1918
Died: November 4
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Oswestry
Shropshire
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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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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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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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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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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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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I, too, saw God through mud
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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
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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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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
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I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
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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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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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