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1. "Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose." ~ Wilfred Owen
2. "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!" ~ Wilfred Owen
3. "All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me." ~ Wilfred Owen
4. "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." ~ Wilfred Owen
5. "The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head." ~ Wilfred Owen
6. "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
7. "These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.Memory fingers in their hair of murdersMultitudinous murders they once witnessed.Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter." ~ Wilfred Owen
8. "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." ~ Wilfred Owen
9. "You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment." ~ Wilfred Owen
10. "Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.We laughed, — knowing that better men would come,And greater wars: when each proud fighter bragsHe wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags." ~ Wilfred Owen
11. "Courage was mine, and I had mystery,Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery:To miss the march of this retreating worldInto vain citadels that are not walled." ~ Wilfred Owen
12. "And in his eyesThe cold stars lighting, very old and bleak,In different skies." ~ Wilfred Owen
13. "Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad." ~ Wilfred Owen
14. "My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease." ~ Wilfred Owen
15. "Consummation is consumption.We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume.All joys are cakes and vanish in eating.All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth." ~ Wilfred Owen
16. "O what made fatuous sunbeams toilTo break earth's sleep at all?" ~ Wilfred Owen
17. "The dust that fell unnoted as a dew,Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth" ~ Wilfred Owen
18. "There breasts were stuck all white with wreath and sprayAs men's are, dead." ~ Wilfred Owen
19. "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." ~ Wilfred Owen
20. "move him into the sun-gently its touch awoke him once," ~ Wilfred Owen
21. "But let my death be memoried on this disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But let thy heart-beat kiss it night and day,Until the name grow vague and wear away." ~ Wilfred Owen
22. "Shall they return to beating of great bellsIn wild train-loads?A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to village wells,Up half-known roads." ~ Wilfred Owen
23. "For by my glee might many men have laughed,And of my weeping may something have been left,Which must die now." ~ Wilfred Owen
24. "He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry" ~ Wilfred Owen
25. "And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze." ~ Wilfred Owen
26. "Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead." ~ Wilfred Owen
27. "But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one." ~ Wilfred Owen
28. "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.No mockeries now for them; no prayers, nor bells,Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells,And bugles calling for them from sad shires.What candles may be held to speed them all?Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes,Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.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." ~ Wilfred Owen
29. "As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul." ~ Wilfred Owen
30. "The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori." ~ Wilfred Owen
31. "Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate." ~ Wilfred Owen
32. "All a poet can do today is warn." ~ Wilfred Owen
33. "Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill." ~ Wilfred Owen
34. "When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing." ~ Wilfred Owen
35. "All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want." ~ Wilfred Owen
36. "Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War." ~ Wilfred Owen
37. "I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness." ~ Wilfred Owen
38. "I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?" ~ Wilfred Owen
39. "I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law." ~ Wilfred Owen
40. "I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's." ~ Wilfred Owen
41. "If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable." ~ Wilfred Owen
42. "Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both." ~ Wilfred Owen
43. "Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do." ~ Wilfred Owen
44. "She is elegant rather than belle." ~ Wilfred Owen
45. "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
46. "Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom." ~ Wilfred Owen
47. "Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out." ~ Wilfred Owen
48. "The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious." ~ Wilfred Owen

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