A collection of famous sayings and quotes by Siegfried Sassoon on education, regeneration, poems, obituary, war, death, guns, sufferings, love, pain and soldiers.
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Siegfried Sassoon was a celebrated English writer, poet, and soldier. He became one of the prominent poets of the First World War, besides being decorated for bravery on the Western Front. His writings, works, thoughts, and poetry reflected the horrors of excavation and mocked the patriotic assertions of those who were blameworthy for a jingoism-fuelled war. In his ‘Soldier’s Declaration’ of 1917, he made a lone protest against the protraction of war, but was dissented within the armed forces for the same. He gained a lot of acclaim for, ‘Sherston Trilogy,’ his three-volume fictionalised autobiography. Following is a corpus of insightful quotes and sayings by Siegfried Sassoon that are sure to give you a fresh perspective towards life. Zoom through the treasury of notable thoughts and quotes by Siegfried Sassoon.
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.
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."
"The War Poems
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.
The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
Siegfried Sassoon
Soldiers are dreamers.
Siegfried Sassoon
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.
Siegfried Sassoon
O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
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.
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.
Siegfried Sassoon
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.
