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… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
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… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
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… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
