"Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way." ― Isaac Rosenberg Topic(s): Poetry More From Isaac Rosenberg "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." "I despair of ever writing excellent poetry." More In Poetry "I don’t think Auden liked my poetry very much, he’s very Anglican."― Stevie Smith "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."― T. S. Eliot "The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."― Frederick William Robertson