Isaac Rosenberg Quotes (14 Quotes)

I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago.

Nothing can justify war.

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

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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.

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 the far wheels said, The blood-dazed intelligence beating for light, Crying through the suspense of the far torturi

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.