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The Poems of Wilfred Owen QUOTES

The Poems of Wilfred Owen QUOTES

1 " These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

2 " Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

3 " Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

4 " This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

5 " You shall not hear their mirth:
You shall not come to think them well content
By any jest of mine. These men are worth
Your tears:You are not worth their merriment. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

6 " Some say God caught them even before they fell. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

7 " Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

8 " Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout
"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen

9 " All sounds have been as music to my listening "

― Wilfred Owen , The Poems of Wilfred Owen