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" I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. "
Wilfred Owen
Poet
Realized
Life
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" My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "
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" 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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" All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study. "
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" All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. "
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" All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. "
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" If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. "
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" 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. "
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" I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. "
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" 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. "
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" Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. "
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Only
War
" Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. "
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May
Ambition
" 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. "
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Die
Cold
Death
" 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. "
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Reading
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" I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? "
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Am
Myself
Life
" I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. "
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Thinking
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" All a poet can do today is warn. "
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Warn
Today
Poet
" Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. "
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Home
Never
Poetry
" The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. "
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Say
Head
Feet
" I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers. "
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I Am
Soldiers
Superiority
" Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. "
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Old People
People
Old
" Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. "
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Inward
Age
Old
" She is elegant rather than belle. "
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She
Rather
Belle
" 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. "
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Grow
Trees
Spring