Some say God caught them even before they fell. - Wilfred Owen

The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.