I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Quote by Isaac Rosenberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one...

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one...

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself...

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself...

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the...

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the...

Nothing can justify war.

Nothing can justify war.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can...

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can...

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with...

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with...