What did Wilfred Owen mean by: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Wilfred Owen Poet · England Copy
+ All a poet can do today is warn. Author, June 15, 2023January 2, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Poetry, Responsibility, Warning, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Beauty, Escape, Goodness, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Commitment, Duty, Excellence, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Death, Love, Remembrance, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Determination, Resilience, Sacrifice, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Connection, Empathy, Loss, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
+ I, too, saw God through mud Author, September 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Redemption, Spirituality, Suffering, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wilfred Owen, Devaluation, Emotion., Patriarchy, 0 Wilfred Owen Poet · England
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France