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.
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.Wilfred Owen
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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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.
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Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds not on the cess of war.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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One dies of war like any old disease.
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