Wilfred Owen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Wilfred Owen quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased soldier born on Mar 18, 1893). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 22 we have for him.
“I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.”
“She is elegant rather than belle.”
“A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.”
“I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.”
“Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.”
“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.”
“All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.”
“I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.”
“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.”
“Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.”
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