"The written word is everything." — John Drinkwater

"The written word is everything."

— John Drinkwater

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24 Quotes by John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may…
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose…
Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us…
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a…
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of…
And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their…
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of…
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the…
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words…
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It…

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