Isaac Rosenberg Quotes


"You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Education, Circumstances, Forget)

"Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Appreciation)

"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
(Related: Nature, Being)

"Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Poetry)

"I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Battle, Nothing, Song)

"I never joined the army for patriotic reasons."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Army)

"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Poetry, Despair, Writing)

"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Poets)

"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
"Nothing can justify war."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: War, Nothing)