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Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled. — Siegfried Sassoon

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon

The photograph annihilates the person. — Siegfried Kracauer

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death. — Siegfried Sassoon

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble. — Siegfried Sassoon

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city. — Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are dreamers. — Siegfried Sassoon

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. — Siegfried Sassoon

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. — Siegfried Lenz

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. — Siegfried Sassoon

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

The dead ... are more real than the living because they are complete. — Siegfried Sassoon

Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well. — Andre Siegfried

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet. — Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. — Siegfried Sassoon

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own. — Siegfried Lenz

They march from safety, and the bird-sung joy
Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all
Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky — Siegfried Sassoon

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die
in bed. — Siegfried Sassoon

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world, — Siegfried Hecker

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind. — Siegfried Lenz

The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity. — Siegfried Sassoon

No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense. — Siegfried Kracauer

Guided by film ... we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things. — Siegfried Kracauer

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed. — Siegfried Kracauer

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. — Siegfried Sassoon

It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals. — Andre Siegfried

We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle. — Siegfried Sassoon

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. — Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. — Siegfried Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. — Siegfried Sassoon

I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon

I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele. — Siegfried Sassoon

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. — Siegfried Sassoon

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.' — Roy Horn

If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude. — Siegfried Sassoon

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think. — Winston Churchill

Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral. — Siegfried Sassoon

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. — Siegfried Sassoon

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. — Siegfried Sassoon

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. — Siegfried Sassoon

In all of us there is an elusive melody which when heard and followed leads to the fulfillment of our fondest dreams — Siegfried & Roy