Famous Quotes | A short life and a merry one, my...
A short life and a merry one, my buck!
We used to say we’d hate to live dead-old,—
Yet now . . . I’d willingly be puffy, bald,
And patriotic.
- Wilfred Owen
Attribution: Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), British poet. A Terre (l. 11–14). CTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
Categories: War
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