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Wilfred Owen: 'I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'She is elegant rather than belle.'

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Wilfred Owen: '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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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.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.'

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Wilfred Owen: '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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Wilfred Owen: '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.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.'

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

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Wilfred Owen: 'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.'

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

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Wilfred Owen: 'All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.'

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

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Wilfred Owen: 'All a poet can do today is warn.'

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Wilfred Owen: 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'

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Oliver North: 'And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.'

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