The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt… — 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
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates… — 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;… — 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… — 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… — 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
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. — 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
