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 More Quotes by Wilfred Owen More Quotes From Wilfred Owen Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Wilfred Owen envy men death Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. Wilfred Owen eye secret way The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. Wilfred Owen sadness grief hope I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! Wilfred Owen disease use war Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. Wilfred Owen eye boys war Was it for this the clay grew tall? Wilfred Owen sunbeams clay fighting Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears. Wilfred Owen reciprocity tears share What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. Wilfred Owen 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. Wilfred Owen me service news war 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. Wilfred Owen die desert life death If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Wilfred Owen must anything good soldier Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. Wilfred Owen outraged bullied She is elegant rather than belle. Wilfred Owen than she rather elegant Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen old old-age hope age 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. Wilfred Owen me growing study fields Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. Wilfred Owen only flying enthusiasm war I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers. Wilfred Owen soldiers i-am superiority ocean