Isaac Rosenberg Quotes

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

All great authors are seers.

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.