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22 quotes by Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend and mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as...
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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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All a poet can do today is warn.

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

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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!

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Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

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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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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

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

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She is elegant rather than belle.

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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

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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... →

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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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