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 More Quotes by Wilfred Owen More Quotes From Wilfred Owen I thought of all that worked dark pits Wilfred Owen wardeathlying Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Wilfred Owen envymendeath Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. Wilfred Owen eyesecretway 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 sadnessgriefhope I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! Wilfred Owen diseaseusewar Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. Wilfred Owen eyeboyswar Was it for this the clay grew tall? Wilfred Owen sunbeamsclayfighting Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears. Wilfred Owen reciprocitytearsshare 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 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 diedesertlifedeath If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Wilfred Owen mustanythinggoodsoldier Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. Wilfred Owen outragedbullied She is elegant rather than belle. Wilfred Owen thansheratherelegant Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen oldold-agehopeage 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 megrowingstudyfields Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. Wilfred Owen onlyflyingenthusiasmwar I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers. Wilfred Owen soldiersi-amsuperiorityocean
