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Wilfred Owen Quotes: 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!
         

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!


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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.



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I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.



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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.





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