Isaac Rosenberg quotes:

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

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.

Nothing can justify war.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

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.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

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.

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

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

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

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

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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

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

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