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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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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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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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Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.
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Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
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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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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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Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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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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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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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
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Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.
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I, too, saw God through mud
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
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So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
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