He was an English poet as well as soldier during the First World War.
The surprising, reasonable battle his poems about the horrors of the trenches and also gas fog during the First Globe Battle was greatly affected by his pal Siegfried Sassoon, and also stood in plain comparison to both the basic impression of the battle at the time, as well as to the patriotic diktenr to former war poets such as Rupert Brooke. The majority of what he created was not released up until after his fatality. One of the best understood, his works are "A Dulce etiquette Est", "Anthem for Ruined Youth," "Futility" and "Strange Satisfying." Owen is possibly as well-known for having actually been killed in fight at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before the war finished, which resulted in the fatality his message and also the message of tranquility reached his home town at the exact same time.
Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Wilfred.
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose"
"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 English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head"
"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"
"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom"
"All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me"
"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want"
"All a poet can do today is warn"
"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"
"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"
"She is elegant rather than belle"
"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do"
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both"
"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity"
"If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable"
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's"
"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law"
"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness"
"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War"
"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!"
"Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill"
