Wilfred Owen Quotes
"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Want)
"All a poet can do today is warn."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Today)
"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Spring, Trees)
"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
(Related: History, Fighting, Reading, Soldiers, Years)
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Home, Poetry, Force)
"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Reading, Satisfaction, Thinking)
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Ambition, May)
"Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill."
- Wilfred Owen
"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
(Related: Language, Rest, Sense)
"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: War, Enthusiasm, Flying, Profession)
"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Life)
"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Geometry, Law, Philosophy)
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Life, First)
"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Poetry, War, Pity)
"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: People, Numbers, Old)
"She is elegant rather than belle."
- Wilfred Owen
"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Kiss, English, Feet)
"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
(Related: War, News, Service)
"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: Age, Hope, Old)
"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
(Related: Financial, Nothing)
"If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable."
- Wilfred Owen