Isaac Rosenberg Quotes

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

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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.

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• Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew Your cosmopolitan sympathies.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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• I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

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  Tags in Writing, Poetry, Despair

• I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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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.

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  Tags in Battle, Enough

• 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.

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  Tags in Poetry, Strange

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

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  Tags in Poetry, Read

• Nothing can justify war.

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• Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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  Tags in Burst, Poetical

• You mustn’t forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

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Isaac Rosenberg (14)

Birth:	25th November, 1890
Death:	1st April, 1918
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. He was an English poet and artist. His Poems from the Trenches are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art and Birkbeck, University of London. He published a pamphlet of ten poems, Night and Day, in 1912. He also exhibited paintings at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1914. He wrote several poems include: Youth, Break of Day in the Trenches, Returning we Hear the Larks, Dead Man's Dump, and Through these Pale Cold Days.

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