My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The … - Wilfred Owen

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I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

Wilfred Owen

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.

Children, Country, Friend, Glory, Old, Sweet

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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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

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