"All a poet can do today is warn."

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Source : Poems (1963 ed.) preface

Wilfred Owen

#Poetry Quotes #Warning Quotes #Today Quotes

“Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.”
“Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.”
“I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.”
“Always store beer in a dark place.”
“We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.”
“Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.”
“War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?”
“Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.”

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