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Wilfred Owen Quotes

English - Soldier | March 18, 1893 - November 4, 1918

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

War Poetry Pity Subject

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

Bullied Outraged

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

Good Soldier Anything Got Must Else

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

Ambition Nose May Willingness Number

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Want Ask Above Barren Held Wastes

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.

Service War Me I Can News Over

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

Kiss Feet Say Mean Head English

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Age Hope Old Age Old Pass No Hope

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

Ocean I Am Soldiers Superiority Am

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.

Me Growing Study Fields Shifting

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

War Flying Enthusiasm Active Would

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.

Spring Trees Grow New Ring Fresh

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