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Isaac Rosenberg [1890-1918] English
Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

War


Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet and artist. His Poems from the Trenches are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War.

Poetry



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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
101
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.
102
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. Poetry
103
Nothing can justify war.
104
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
105
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.
106
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
107
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
108
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. Poetry
109
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
110
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
111

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