Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
Top 27 wise famous quotes and sayings by Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble.
I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.
O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.
We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
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
Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all
Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky
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.
I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell.
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell.
Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral.