One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock. ‘Certainly not,’ he replied. 'What have I got then?’ 'Well, you app… - Siegfried Sassoon

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One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock.
‘Certainly not,’ he replied.
'What have I got then?’
'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.

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About Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was a British poet and writer, best remembered for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

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Alternative Names: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon • Saul Kain • Pinchbeck Lyre • Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon
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The art of poetry belongs to life; one lives for it just as other people live for their essential vocations of whatever kind they may be. It is one’s earthly home, and the other poets, dead or living, when masters of the art, are one’s housemates.
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