Quotes

1. "Anthem for Doomed Youth"

Quote: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?"

Quote: "The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells."

Quote: "And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds."

2. "Dulce Et Decorum Est"

Quote: "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori."

Quote: "His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin."

Quote: "If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace / Behind the wagon that we flung him in."

3. "Futility"

Quote: "Was it for this the clay grew tall?"

Quote: "Move him into the sun—"

Quote: "O what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth’s sleep at all?"

4. "Disabled"

Quote: "He’s lost his colour very far from here."

Quote: "Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn."

Quote: "And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race."