Poetry Quote by Wilfred Owen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,”

“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.”

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”

“may my heart always be open to little”

“O stand, stand at the window”

“The profoundest of all sensualities”

“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”

“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to be able to wash it out totally in one generation, if we put our backs into it.”

“Peace is always beautiful.”