Owen

Famous quotes containing the word owen:

“‘I shall be one with nature, herb, and stone’,
Shelley would tell me. Shelley wound be stunned:

The dullest Tommy hugs that fancy now.
‘Pushing up daisies’ is their creed, you know.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields half-sown.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,
But here the thing’s best left at home with friends.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)