Isaac Rosenberg Quotes

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

Nature, Live, Made

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

Important, Real, Situation

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

Great, Simple, Large

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
Isaac Rosenberg

Poetry, Writing, Despair

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
Isaac Rosenberg

Army, Reasons, Patriotic

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

Nothing, Battle, Enough

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

Life, Poetry, Strange

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

Poetry, Put, Read

Nothing can justify war.
Isaac Rosenberg

War, Nothing, Justify

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
Isaac Rosenberg

Bursting, Newly, Poetical

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

Education, Forget, Brought

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 25, 1890

Died: April 1, 1918

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