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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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All a poet can do today is warn.

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

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Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

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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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We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

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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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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Soldier

Born: March 18th, 1893

Died: November 4th, 1918

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