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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

Wilfred Owen's Popular Quotes

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

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

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

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All a poet can do today is warn.

- 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.

- Wilfred Owen

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

- Wilfred Owen