“And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.”
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Famous Wilfred Owen Quotes
“If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable”
Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen
Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
Source: Selected Letters
“Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.”
“Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.”
Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen
“Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's”
Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
Source: Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)