"The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious."

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Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

Wilfred Owen

#Night Quotes #Sight Quotes #Broken Quotes

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?”
“I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.”
“When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.”
“It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.”
“There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.”
“I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.”
“The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.”
“Far too few have much too much, and way too many have much too little!”

Source : "Q & A: Trend researcher predicts gloomy 2012". Interview with Jeff Wilkin, dailygazette.com. January 1, 2012.

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