"Poe's saying that a long poem is a……" — John Drinkwater
"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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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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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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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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More Long Quotes
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and…
— Dario Argento
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
— Karen Armstrong
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
— Darren Aronofsky
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to…
— Joe Arpaio
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
— Chinua Achebe
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