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Siegfried Sassoon [1886-1967] English
Rank: 106
Poet (with poems)

Georgian poets, War


Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

Death



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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
101
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
102
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. Death
103
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
104
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
105
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
106
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
107
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
108
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.
109

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