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Wilfred Owen Quotes: Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
         

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.


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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.



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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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