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
I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting; that is, if I am lucky enough to come through all right.
– Isaac Rosenberg
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
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
– Isaac Rosenberg
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
– Isaac Rosenberg
I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago.
– Isaac Rosenberg
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
– Isaac Rosenberg
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
– 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.
– Isaac Rosenberg
It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something.
– Isaac Rosenberg
It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.
– Isaac Rosenberg
My mind is so cramped and dulled and fevered, there is no consistency of purpose, no oneness of aim; the very fibres are torn apart, and application deadened by the fiendish persistence of the coil of circumstance.
– Isaac Rosenberg
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
– Isaac Rosenberg
Nothing can justify war.
– Isaac Rosenberg
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
– Isaac Rosenberg
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.