Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's - Wilfred Owen
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
- Wilfred Owen
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. - Wilfred Owen
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. - Wilfred Owen
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. - Wilfred Owen
These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable - Wilfred Owen
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. - Wilfred Owen
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
All a poet can do today is warn. - Wilfred Owen
All a poet can do today is warn.
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. - Wilfred Owen
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. - Wilfred Owen
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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