Famous quote by Wilfred Owen

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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats
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"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

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This quote by Wilfred Owen exposes his deep enthusiasm for poetry and how it gave him a source of strength and motivation in times of war. He values the language and literary works of poets like Keats and concerns them as something that holds terrific significance and value. The reality that he thinks perpetuating this language would hold him together even in the most alarming scenarios shows how deeply he felt about the power of words. It could likewise be interpreted as his desire to preserve the art and appeal of poetry, even in the middle of the gritty and cruel truth of war.

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Wilfred Owen This quote is written / told by Wilfred Owen between March 18, 1893 and November 4, 1918. He was a famous Soldier from England. The author also have 21 other quotes.

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