All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.
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The Poetry is in the pity.Wilfred Owen
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
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
The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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