Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
Wilfred OwenChildren are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
Wilfred OwenThose who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
Wilfred OwenThe universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.
Wilfred Owen