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Isaac Rosenberg
English
Poet
About the author
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,
English
Poet
#Life
#Will
#Consciousness
#Poetry
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Forget
#Education
#Circumstances
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Appreciation
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,
English
Poet
#Being
#Nature
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Poetry
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#Song
#Battle
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Army
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Writing
#Poetry
#Despair
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Poets
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,
English
Poet
Nothing can justify war.
Isaac Rosenberg,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#War