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Siegfried Sassoon

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Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#poetry #sassoon #world-war-one #wwi #beauty

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#reading #war #humor

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems


— Siegfried Sassoon


#home

Soldiers are dreamers.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#inspirational

I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#beauty

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#rose #tiger

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#begin #clean #dreamers #guns #homes

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#death #dividend #drawing #grey #land

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#created #germans #had #jab #life

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.


— Siegfried Sassoon


#am #being #conduct #errors #fighting






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Sassoon's bravery was inspiring to the extent that soldiers of his company said that they felt confident only when they were accompanied by him. He later won acclaim for his prose work notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy". At Craiglockhart Sassoon met Wilfred Owen a fellow poet who would eventually exceed him in fame.

He later won acclaim for his prose work notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy". His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who in Sassoon's view were responsible for a vainglorious war.

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