Wilfred Owen Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

9 Famous Quotes by Wilfred Owen
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“Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?”
Afterlife Quotes
“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.”
World war i Quotes
“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.”
World war i Quotes
“A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.”
World war i Quotes
“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...”
World war i Quotes
“Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?”
World war i Quotes
“Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.”
World war i Quotes
“Was it for this the clay grew tall?”
World war i Quotes
“What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.”
Literature Quotes