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When the poet makes his perfe...

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

But in the finished art of th...

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

So it is in poetry. All we as...

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

We recognise in the finished ...

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

Poetry is the communication t...

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

In the corridors under tehre ...

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

When you defile the pleasant ...

When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

Poetry being the sign of that...

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

The musician - if he be a goo...

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

Great men are rare, poets are...

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

The poet's perfect expression...

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

It is commonly asserted and a...

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

There can be no proof that Bl...

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

To take an analogy: if we say...

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

A lyric, it is true, is the e...

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

It should here be added that ...

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

To know anything of a poet bu...

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

Grant us the wil1 to fashion ...

Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

It should here be added that p...

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

For while the subjects of poet...

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

John Drinkwater 44 quotes

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