Wwi Quotes

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; ...

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we a...

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die...

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in ...

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a st...

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater si...

The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bo...

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provisio...

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the ...

MCMXIVThose long uneven linesStanding as patientlyAs if they were stretched outsideThe Oval or Villa...

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate...

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World...

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...

Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembran...

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds...

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one.