Isaac Rosenberg Quotes

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.