Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

- Wilfred Owen

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

- Wilfred Owen

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

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

- Wilfred Owen

She is elegant rather than belle.

- Wilfred Owen

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

- Wilfred Owen

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

- Wilfred Owen

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

- Wilfred Owen

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

- Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn.

- Wilfred Owen

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

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

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

- Wilfred Owen

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

- Wilfred Owen

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

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

- Wilfred Owen

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

- Wilfred Owen

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

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

- Wilfred Owen

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

- Wilfred Owen