Top 4 Quotes by Ivor Gurney

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

War, Mind, Strange

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

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

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