English - Soldier | March 18, 1893 - November 4, 1918
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
HistoryReadingFightingSeeServe
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
MeBecomingTheologicalLore
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
TogetherMeRestLanguageYouKnow
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
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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?
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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
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She is elegant rather than belle.
SheElegantRatherThanBelle
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.
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All a poet can do today is warn.
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