Isaac Rosenberg

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

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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

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I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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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

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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

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

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Nothing can justify war. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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