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Wilfred Owen

"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"

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"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."

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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
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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?"
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"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."
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"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."
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"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom."
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"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
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