List of Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

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Siegfried Sassoon
Total Quotes 35
Everyone suddenly burst out singing; and i was filled with such delight as prisoned birds must find in freedom, winging wildly across the white orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight. everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted; and beauty came like the setting sun: my heart was shaken with tears; and horror drifted away ... o, but everyone was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
Song Heart Dark
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of germans.
Men
I didn't want to die - not before i'd finished reading the return of the native anyhow.
Reading Want Return
Let my soul, a shining tree, silver branches lift towards thee, where on a hallowed winter's night the clear-eyed angels may alight.
Angel Winter Night
And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad unless they lose control of ugly thoughts that drive them out to jabber among the trees.
War Mad Tree
October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesthe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodin whose lament i hear a voice that grievesfor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudof outrage men. their lives are like the leavesscattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownalong the westering furnace flaring red.o martyred youth and manhood overthrown,the burden of your wrongs is on my head.
Men Voice Battle
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.
Average Years Records
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.
Hero Lines Fierce
O german mother dreaming by the fire, while you are knitting socks to send your son his face is trodden deeper in the mud.
Mother Dream Son
His wet white face and miserable eyesbrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:but hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellhis troubled voice: he did the business well.(first verse of died of wounds)
Voice White Nurse
The visionless officialized fatuitythat once kept europe safe for perpetuity.
Europe Safe
How innocent were these trees, that in mist-green may, blown by a prospering breeze, stood garlanded and gay; who now in sundown glow of serious colour clad confront me with their show as though resigned and sad, trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold; pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old; elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, i am merged in you, who tell once more in tones of time, your foliaged farewell.
Fall Farewell Tired
  • Born: September 8, 1886
  • Died: September 1, 1967
  • Occupation: Poet
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