I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
- Wilfred Owen
Myself, Me, Ask, Congenial
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
- Wilfred Owen
Old, Pass, Gloom, Inward
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
- Wilfred Owen
Reading, Scientific, Am, Poetical
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
- Wilfred Owen
Study, Lore, Proves, Theological
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
- Wilfred Owen
Me, Becoming, Lore, Distasteful
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
- Wilfred Owen
Soldier, Must, Else, Unthinkable
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
- Wilfred Owen
Old, Seldom, Read, Old People
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.
- Wilfred Owen
News, Over, Making, Dole
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.
- Wilfred Owen
Grow, New, Ring, Season
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
- Wilfred Owen
Law, Conclusion, Poem, Geometry
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
- Wilfred Owen
Nose, Hits, Receive, Defined
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!
- Wilfred Owen
Rest, Which, Wrote, Keats
She is elegant rather than belle.
- Wilfred Owen
She, Rather, Than, Belle
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
- Wilfred Owen
Outraged, Bullied
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
- Wilfred Owen
Feet, Head, Italians, Yours
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
- Wilfred Owen
Want, Wastes, Held, Barren
We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.
- Wilfred Owen
Death, Die, Sign, Horizon
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
- Wilfred Owen
Enthusiasm, Profession, Ever, Flying
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.
- Wilfred Owen
Point Of View, Which, Begin
All a poet can do today is warn.
- Wilfred Owen
Today, Warn, Poet
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
- Wilfred Owen
Boy, Realized, Fullest, Poet
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
- Wilfred Owen
Never, Behind, Thank, Force
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.
- Wilfred Owen
Reading, Almost, Then, Soldiers
I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.
- Wilfred Owen
Ocean, I Am, Superiority, Soldiers
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
- Wilfred Owen
War, Poetry, Subject, Pity
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