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Wilfred Owen Quotes: I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
         

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.


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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.



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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.



All a poet can do today is warn.

All a poet can do today is warn.



Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.



No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.



And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.



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

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



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.

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.



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

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





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If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

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