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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

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

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

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Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.


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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Wilfred Owen

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Born: March 18, 1893
Died: November 4, 1918 (aged 25)
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