Wilfred Owen Quotes

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Wilfred Owen

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• It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

  

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• Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

  

  Wilfred Owen
  • War
  • Poetry
  • Concerned