Isaac Rosenberg quotes

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

#Time #Darkness #Druids

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

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

#Strange #Consciousness #This Life

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

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

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
-- Isaac Rosenberg

#Way #My Way

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
-- Isaac Rosenberg

#Littles #Forget #Circumstances

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
-- Isaac Rosenberg

#Simple #Looks #Way

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
-- Isaac Rosenberg

#Appreciation #Bursting

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
-- Isaac Rosenberg

#Patriotic #Army #Reason