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

Quote by Isaac Rosenberg

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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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...

Nothing can justify war.

Nothing can justify war.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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...