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Isaac Rosenberg

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

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Isaac Rosenberg is saying that no one guided him toward reading poetry or introduced it to him during his life. This suggests he discovered poetry on his own without external encouragement or direction.

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