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> [“God In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned! His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls. The world flashed grape-green eyes of a foiled cat To him. On fragments of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/god-in-his-malodorous-brain-what-slugs-and-mire-lanthorned-in-his/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

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## More by Isaac Rosenberg

> [“The Immortals I killed them, but they would not die. Yea! all the day and all the night For them I could not rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/the-immortals-i-killed-them-but-they-would-not-die-yea-all-the-day/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach the living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/here-lies-one-not-long-dead-his-dark-hearing-caught-our-far-wheels/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/nobody-ever-told-me-what-to-read-or-ever-put-poetry-in-my-way/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/you-mustn-t-forget-the-circumstances-i-have-been-brought-up-in-the/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/i-can-only-say-that-one-s-individual-situation-is-more-real-and/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/poetical-appreciation-is-only-newly-bursting-on-me/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/i-will-not-leave-a-corner-of-my-consciousness-covered-up-but-saturate/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/i-cant-look-at-things-in-the-simple-large-way-that-great-poets-do/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/the-darkness-crumbles-away-it-is-the-same-old-druid-time-as-ever/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/i-despair-of-ever-writing-excellent-poetry/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/being-by-the-nature-of-my-upbringing-all-my-energies-having-been/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/earth-has-waited-for-them-all-the-time-of-their-growth-fretting-for/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/i-can-t-look-at-things-in-the-simple-large-way-that-great-poets-do/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [“God In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned! His body lodged a rat where men nursed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/god-in-his-malodorous-brain-what-slugs-and-mire-lanthorned-in-his/)

[Isaac Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-rosenberg/)

> [You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-rosenberg/you-mustnt-forget-the-circumstances-i-have-been-brought-up-in-the/)

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