Siegfried Sassoon said this quote

“ I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. ”

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Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been,And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

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I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

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Siegfried Sassoon Humor Reading War

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

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Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

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