Wilfred Owen Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Wilfred Owen quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an English soldier who passed away on 4 November, 1918.
“Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.”
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
“Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.”
“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.”
“All a poet can do today is warn.”
“Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.”
“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!”
“The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.”
“If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.”
“All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.”
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