Author: Wilfred Owen

Quotes

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

- Wilfred Owen

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

- Wilfred Owen

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

- Wilfred Owen

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

- Wilfred Owen

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.

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.

- Wilfred Owen

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

- Wilfred Owen

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

- Wilfred Owen

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

- Wilfred Owen

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

- Wilfred Owen

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