Wilfred Owen

"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."

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

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

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

"Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, — knowing that better men would come,And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags."

"All a poet can do today is warn."