Wilfred Owen Quotes

Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
English Soldier
Born: Mar 18, 1893
Died: Nov 4, 1918
Am Distasteful Life Me Poet War
Related authors: Ant Middleton Florence Green James Welch Oliver Cromwell Philip Sidney Robert Baden-Powell Sarah West
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
War Poetry Subject Pity
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
Life Death Signs Cold Sign Thousand Horizon Marvel Were Did Die Frozen Desert
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Wilfred Owen
Good Else Soldier Must Unthinkable Got Anything Anything Else
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
History Reading Fighting Soldiers East See Almost Years Mania After Then Serve Playing
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. Wilfred Owen
Outraged Bullied
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. Wilfred Owen
Home Fear Both Poetry Never Force Thank Behind
She is elegant rather than belle. Wilfred Owen
Rather She Than Elegant Belle
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen
Hope Age Old Old Age Those No Hope Inward Gloom Pass Who
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. Wilfred Owen
Reading Thinking Only Poetical Generality Scientific Am Off Any Satisfaction Rounds Conscious Vagueness
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. Wilfred Owen
People Old Those Seldom Read Cannot Old People Who Numbers
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. Wilfred Owen
Kiss Kick Say Head Feet Truly Italians Mean Your Yours English
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
Financial Impossible Nothing Those Point Point Of View Feel Leaves Begin List Which Then View Professions Eliminate
I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers. Wilfred Owen
Ocean Soldiers Superiority Am

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