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  • For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.

    Book   Narrators   Fading  
  • The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.

    Europe   Safe  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

    Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber
  • I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”
  • Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.

    Struggle   Odds   Funeral  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

  • I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

    Party   Believe   Evil  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”
  • Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.

    Passion   Heaven   Secret  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

    Angel   Winter   Night  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

    Real  
    "Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs".
  • The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.

    Song   Singing   Done  
    War Poems (1919) "Everyone Sang"
  • I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

    Reading   Want   Return  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”
  • You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

    Cheer   Laughter   Home  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

    Home   Gun   Thinking  
    Counter-Attack (1918) "Dreamers"
  • I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

    Military   War   Believe  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.

    Dog   Dust   Sky  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1956). “Sequences”
  • And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

    Flower   Wind   May  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

    'Blighters' (1917)
  • I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

    Soldier   Acting   Behalf  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

    Voice   White   Nurse  
    Siegfried Sassoon, “Died Of Wounds”
  • Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist The drooping cherry orchards of October Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves Russet and orange: all things now decay; Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves, And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

    Autumn   Blue   Flames  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

    Land   Drawing   Soldier  
    'Dreamers' (1918)
  • And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

    Betrayal   War   Home  
    Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.58, Courier Corporation
  • October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.

    Men   Voice   Battle  
    Siegfried Sassoon, “Autumn”
  • But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

    Men  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1937). “The Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Sherston's Progress”
  • I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

    War   Fighting   Men  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.

    Rain   Boys   Blood  
  • December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

    Twilight   Land   Sky  
    Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
  • And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

    War   Mad   Tree  
    Siegfried Sassoon (2004). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.80, Courier Corporation
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