"If it is an imperfect word, no external……" — John Drinkwater
"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
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24 Quotes by John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater has 24 quotes on this site.
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may…
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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose…
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Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us…
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There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a…
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This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of…
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And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their…
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of…
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the…
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The written word is everything.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words…
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It…
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More Circumstance Quotes
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
— James A. Baldwin
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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We…
— Cate Blanchett
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in.…
— Jeb Bush
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If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete,…
— Tupac Shakur
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Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common…
— John C. Maxwell
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
— Charles Francis Richter
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The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the…
— Kyle Cease
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War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to…
— Seneca the Younger
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
— Theodore Roethke
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