Circumstances Quote by John Drinkwater

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

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

— John Drinkwater

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

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

— John Drinkwater

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

The written word is everything.

— John Drinkwater

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

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

— John Drinkwater

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

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

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

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

— John Drinkwater