I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

- 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

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

- Isaac Rosenberg

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

- Isaac Rosenberg

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 wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

- Isaac Rosenberg

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

- Isaac Rosenberg

Nothing can justify war.

- 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 despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

- Isaac Rosenberg

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

- Isaac Rosenberg