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.
Wilfred OwenThe war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Wilfred OwenI am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen