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The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire. — Wilfred Bion

The dust that fell unnoted as a dew,
Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth — Wilfred Owen

The road to Hades is easy to travel. — Wilfred Bion

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. — Wilfred Burchett

Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,
But here the thing's best left at home with friends. — Wilfred Owen

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage. — Wilfred Bion

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion

A good leader makes a good follower. — Wilfred Bion

Little I'd ever teach a son, but hitting, Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting. — Wilfred Owen

There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore. — Jason Gann

Some say God caught them even before they fell. — Wilfred Owen

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument. — Wilfred Funk

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? — Wilfred Owen

What use will money be to him in the Sands. — Wilfred Thesiger

Hart, you'd schedule Christ's second comimg and have Wilfred send him an itinery. — Jennifer Ashley

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words. — Wilfred Funk

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. — Wilfred Burchett

Wisdom or oblivion - take your choice. From that warfare there is no release. — Wilfred R. Bion

Now begin
Famines of thought and feeling. — Wilfred Owen

Courage is always the surest wisdom. — Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. — Wilfred Grenfell

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later. — Wilfred Burchett

Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland. — Wilfred Owen

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. — Wilfred Owen

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. — Wilfred Owen

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill. — Wilfred Owen

She is elegant rather than belle. — Wilfred Owen

My subject is war, and the pity of war. — Wilfred Owen

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich. — Wilfred Grenfell

And in his eyes
The cold stars lighting, very old and bleak,
In different skies. — Wilfred Owen

Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say. — Wilfred A. Peterson

Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold. — Wilfred Owen

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. — Wilfred Owen

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile. — Wilfred Grenfell

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Wilfred Bion

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. — Wilfred Bion

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. — Wilfred Burchett

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. — Wilfred Owen

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. — Wilfred Owen

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to. — Wilfred Grenfell

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death. — Wilfred Owen

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis. — Wilfred Trotter

There breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray
As men's are, dead. — Wilfred Owen

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. — Wilfred Owen

My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. — Wilfred Owen

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,
Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter. — Wilfred Owen

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. — Wilfred Owen

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. — Wilfred Owen

I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed. — Wilfred Owen

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. — Wilfred Owen

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. — Wilfred Owen

And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling — Wilfred Owen

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks. — Wilfred Thesiger

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. — Wilfred Owen

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. — Wilfred Owen

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split. — Wilfred Burchett

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. — Wilfred Bion

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen

Move him into the sun-
gently its touch awoke him once, — Wilfred Owen

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease. — Wilfred Trotter

The harder the life, the finer the person — Wilfred Thesiger

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? — Wilfred Burchett

Bob, I am grateful for your
Three letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had. — Wilfred Waters

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. — Wilfred Burchett

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. — Wilfred Owen

Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad. — Wilfred Owen

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. — Wilfred Owen

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. — Wilfred Owen

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. — Wilfred Burchett

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. — Wilfred Owen

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen

Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Wilfred Bion

Heart, you were never hot
Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot — Wilfred Owen

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably. — Wilfred Grenfell

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. — Wilfred Owen

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. — Wilfred Owen

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. — Wilfred Owen

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen

Wealth is the sinews of affairs. — Wilfred Bion

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and ... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen — Pat Barker

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others. — Wilfred Bion

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. — Wilfred Owen

For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping may something have been left,
Which must die now. — Wilfred Owen

Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill. — Wilfred Owen

I tasted freedom and a way of life from which there could be no recall. — Wilfred Thesiger

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. — Wilfred Bion

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. — Wilfred Owen

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout
"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. — Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. — Wilfred Owen

He's lost his colour very far from here,
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry — Wilfred Owen

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it. — Wilfred Bion

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full — Wilfred Thesiger

I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future. — Wilfred Thesiger

I tried to peg out soldierly,
no use!
One dies of war like any old disease. — Wilfred Owen

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. — 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! — Wilfred Owen

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. — Wilfred Owen

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think ... and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. — Wilfred Funk