English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Wilfred Owen quotes

English Soldier March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen quote: "If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything..."
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. Wilfred Owen
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious. Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen quote: "Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your..."
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen quote: "Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the..."
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen quote: "The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I..."
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. Wilfred Owen
My arms have mutinied against me? brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours. Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease. Wilfred Owen
Behold,A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one Wilfred Owen
You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content. By any jest of mine. These men are worth. Your tears: You are not worth their merriment. Wilfred Owen
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
Wilfred Owen quote: "Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an..."
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen quote: "Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by..."
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. Wilfred Owen
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing. Wilfred Owen
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen quote: "Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. Wilfred Owen

Popular Author

Related Authors