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List of Wilfred Owen Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 68 inspiring quotes by Wilfred Owen.

About Wilfred Owen

  • Born: March 18, 1893
  • Died: November 4, 1918
  • Occupation: Poet
    • Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: whatever shares the eternal reciprocity of tears.
    Tears Share Reciprocity
    The old happiness is unreturning. boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
    Hope Grief Sadness
    Escape? there is one unwatched way: your eyes. o beauty! keep me good that secret gate.
    Eye Secret Way
    Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
    Children Study Enjoyed
    Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, or good germs even. microbes have their joys, and subdivide, and never come to death.
    Death Men Envy
    And death fell with me, like a deepening moan. and he, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, showed me its feet, the feet of many men, and the fresh-severed head of it, my head.
    Death Men Feet
    My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, to climb your throat on sobs; easily chased on other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.
    Grief Wind Soul
    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
    Views Lists Impossible
    For by my glee might many men have laughed, and of my weeping may something have been left, which must die now.
    Men Glee May
    Numbers of the old people cannot read. those who can seldom do
    Numbers People Old People
    I thought of all that worked dark pits of war, and died digging the rock where death reputes peace lies indeed.
    Death War Lying
    It seemed that out of battle i escaped down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped through granites which titanic wars had groined.
    War Tunnels Long
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