"To know anything of a poet but his……" — John Drinkwater
"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 delightful, but is certainly inessential."
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24 Quotes by John Drinkwater
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- 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…
- The written word is everything.
- But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words…