Quotes by Isaac Rosenberg

• 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.
• Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
• 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.
• Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
• I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
• I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
• I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
• I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
• 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.
• Nothing can justify war.