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I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

~Wilfred Owen

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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

~Wilfred Owen

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

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All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.

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Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

~Wilfred Owen

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Soldier

Born: March 18th, 1893

Died: November 4th, 1918

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