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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
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
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
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
— Siegfried Sassoon
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
The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.
— Siegfried Sassoon
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,I'd toddle safely home and die
in bed. — Siegfried Sassoon
They march from safety, and the bird-sung joyOf grass-green thickets, to the land where all
Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky — Siegfried Sassoon
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
The dead ... are more real than the living because they are complete.
— Siegfried Sassoon
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
— 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
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
— Siegfried Sassoon
And there'd be no more jokes in Music-hallsTo mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. — Siegfried Sassoon
Life for the majority of the population.Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral. — 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
If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.
— Siegfried Sassoon
And it's been proved that soldiers don't go madUnless they lose control of ugly thoughts
That drive them out to jabber among the trees. — Siegfried Sassoon
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
— Siegfried Sassoon
I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele.
— 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