Ivor Gurney Quotes

• There are strange hells within the minds war made.

  Ivor Gurney

  War, Mind, Strange

  Ivor Gurney (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.178, Carcanet

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• In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.

  Ivor Gurney

  Kindness, War, Hate

  Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr

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• The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

  Ivor Gurney

  Song, Track, Clean

  1922 'The Songs I Had'.

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• A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

  Ivor Gurney

  Men, Fire, Soldier

  Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr

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