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.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Covered Up, Strange, Consciousness

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

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

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Time, Darkness, Druids

  1916 'Break of Day in theTrenches'.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Patriotic, Army, Reason

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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