Isaac Rosenberg

“The Immortals I killed them, but they would not die. Yea! all the day and all the night For them I could…

— Isaac Rosenberg

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach…

— Isaac Rosenberg

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

— 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…

— Isaac Rosenberg

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of…

— Isaac Rosenberg

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities…

— Isaac Rosenberg

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

“God In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire, Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned! His body lodged a rat where…

— Isaac Rosenberg

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

— Isaac Rosenberg

Nothing can justify war.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

— Isaac Rosenberg