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 Expression 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 Goal 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… — John Drinkwater Abiding 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 Art 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… — John Drinkwater Accepted 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 Expression 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 April 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 Art 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 Appeals 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 Drama Copy Share Image
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. — John Drinkwater Certain 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 Concerned Copy Share Image
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater Just 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 Accepted 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 Art Copy Share Image
In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon,… — John Drinkwater Apples 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 Events Copy Share Image
“Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed Because a summer evening passed; And little Ariadne cried That summer fancy fell at last To dust;… — John Drinkwater Beauty 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 Capacity Copy Share Image
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most… — John Drinkwater Analogies Copy Share Image
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. — John Drinkwater Circumstances 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 Artificial Copy Share Image
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater Language Copy Share Image
Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose,… — John Drinkwater Blow Copy Share Image
