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• 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.

  Wilfred Owen

  Missing, Mastery, World

  Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting"

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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?

  Wilfred Owen

  Ministry, Asks

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• So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.

  Wilfred Owen

  'The Send-Off' (written 1918)

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• Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

  Wilfred Owen

  Age, Inward, No Hope

  "Complete Works of Wilfred Owen".

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• The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, News, Slaughter

  "Complete Works of Wilfred Owen".

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• All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

  Wilfred Owen

  Becoming, Theological, Distasteful

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• I, too, saw God through mud

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Mud, Saws

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Girl, Flower, Drawing

  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 12 (written 1917)

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• I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

  Wilfred Owen

  Jesus, Gun, Tears

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

  Wilfred Owen

  Hunting, Years, World

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Party, Horizon

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• 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.

  Wilfred Owen

  Reading, Fighting, Aunt

  Wilfred Owen (1998). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  1918 'Futility', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• And some cease feeling
  Even themselves or for themselves.
  Dullness best solves
  The tease and doubt of shelling

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Feelings, Doubt

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.

  Wilfred Owen

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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• Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Eye, Boys

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• Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Flying, Enthusiasm

  "The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen".

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• Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

  Wilfred Owen

  Home, Force, Never Fear

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

  Wilfred Owen

  Philosophy, Law, Analysis

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.410, Delphi Classics

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• I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use!
  One dies of war like any old disease.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Use, Disease

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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• Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,
  But here the thing's best left at home with friends.

  Wilfred Owen

  Home, Soul, Soldier

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.211, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Wilfred Owen

  Spring, Air, Tree

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.478, Delphi Classics

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• It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Tunnels, Long

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do

  Wilfred Owen

  Numbers, People, Old People

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Hope, Grief, Sadness

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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