All John Drinkwater Quotes
- Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. Certain
- 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… Accepted
- If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. Circumstance
- 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… All
- 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… Blow
- 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… Accepted
- This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind. Daily
- And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains. Along
- Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into… Any
- Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. All
- The written word is everything. Funny
- But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. Art
- 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… All
- It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. Added
- When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. Endowing
- 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… All
- The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… 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… Best
- 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… Certainly Inessential
- 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… Analogies
- We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put… Art
- 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… Apples
- 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… All
- Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. Long