Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

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Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fill these void veins full again with youth
And wash with an immortal water age?

— Wilfred Owen

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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?

— Wilfred Owen

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

— Wilfred Owen

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

— Wilfred Owen

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

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