Isaac Rosenberg Quotes
- I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and…
- I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough
- 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 they…
- Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
- You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
- I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
- Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
- The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.
- Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.
- Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless…
- I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
- I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
- Nothing can justify war.
- Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach the living word…