10 top siegfried sassoon quotes
- The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
- I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.
- Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.
- I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.
- All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.
- You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.
- And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.
- If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.
- In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble, Since there your elements assemble.
- Alone he staggered on until he found Dawn’s ghost that filtered down a shafted stair To the dazed, muttering creatures underground Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound.
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