Isaac Rosenberg Quotes & Sayings

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. — 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 they do not vitally affect oneself. — Isaac Rosenberg

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

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. — Isaac Rosenberg

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever. — 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, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. — 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 helpless even to live. — 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 despair of ever writing excellent poetry. — Isaac Rosenberg

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

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