Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. - Wilfred Owen

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I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.

Wilfred Owen

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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

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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

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