23 Quotes by Isaac Rosenberg

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach the living word the far wheels said, The blood-dazed intelligence beating for light, Crying through the suspense of the far torturi

It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something.

It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.

I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

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

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

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

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.