Isaac Rosenberg quotes
-
“The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : 1916 'Break of Day in theTrenches'.
-
“Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics
-
“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 RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (1979). “The collected works of Isaac Rosenberg: poetry, prose, letters, paintings, and drawings”
-
“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 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 RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics
-
“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
-
“You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
-
“I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics
-
-
“Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
-
“I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.”
-- Isaac RosenbergSource : Isaac Rosenberg (2003). “The selected poems of Isaac Rosenberg”, Spotlight Poets
You may also like:
-
Alan Seeger
Poet -
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet -
Edmund Blunden
Poet -
Edward Thomas
Poet -
Ivor Gurney
Composer -
John Keats
Poet -
John McCrae
Lieutenant colonel -
Julian Grenfell
Poet -
Keith Douglas
Poet -
Laurence Binyon
Poet -
Pat Barker
Writer -
Paul Fussell
Historian -
Richard Aldington
Writer -
Robert Graves
Poet -
Rupert Brooke
Poet -
Siegfried Sassoon
Poet -
Thomas Hardy
Novelist -
Vera Brittain
Writer -
Wilfred Owen
Poet -
William Butler Yeats
Poet