Author: Wilfred Owen

Quotes

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

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

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

- Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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