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    Wilfred Owen

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


    — Wilfred Owen

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


    — Wilfred Owen

    #any #conscious #generality #i #i am

    I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #ask #called #congenial #fitted #i

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


    — Wilfred Owen

    #chemical #conclusion #find #geometry #i

    All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #distasteful #lore #me #theological

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


    — Wilfred Owen

    #else #good #got #i #must

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


    — Wilfred Owen

    #both #fear #force #home #never

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


    — Wilfred Owen

    #numbers #old #old people #people #read

    She is elegant rather than belle. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #elegant #rather #she #than

    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

    #dole #effects #i #i can #less






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    Robert Graves and Sacheverell Sitwell (who also personally knew him) have stated Owen was homosexual and homoeroticism is a central element in much of Owen's poetry. Literary output
    Only five of Owen's poems were publiWilfred Owend before his death one in fragmentary form. Whilst at Craiglockhart he made friends in Edinburgh's artistic and literary circles and did some teaching at the Tynecastle High School in a poor area of the city.

    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and stood in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke.

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