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Isaac Rosenberg Quotes

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 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
Covered Up, Strange, Consciousness
Isaac Rosenberg (1979). “The collected works of Isaac Rosenberg: poetry, prose, letters, paintings, and drawings”

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

Isaac Rosenberg
Time, Darkness, Druids
1916 'Break of Day in theTrenches'.

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
Real, Fate, Important
Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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

Isaac Rosenberg
Way, My Way
Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Isaac Rosenberg
Appreciation, Bursting
Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Isaac Rosenberg
Patriotic, Army, Reason
Isaac Rosenberg (2003). “The selected poems of Isaac Rosenberg”, Spotlight Poets

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

Isaac Rosenberg
Time, Growth, Decay
Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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

Isaac Rosenberg
Song, Writing, Thinking

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

Isaac Rosenberg
Education, Littles, Forget
Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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

Isaac Rosenberg
Simple, Looks, Way
Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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