Isaac Rosenberg Quotations

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 never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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

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

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 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

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

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something.

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

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

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

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