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

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• Isaac Rosenberg:

  I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

• Isaac Rosenberg:

  I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

• Isaac Rosenberg:

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

• Isaac Rosenberg:

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

• Isaac Rosenberg:

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

• Isaac Rosenberg:

  Nothing can justify war.

• Isaac Rosenberg:

  Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

• Isaac Rosenberg:

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

• Leonard Woolf:

  Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

• Leonard Woolf:

  The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.