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Author: John Drinkwater
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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.
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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John Drinkwater
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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John Drinkwater
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
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John Drinkwater
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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John Drinkwater
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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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 best possible way, that is, completely.
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 best possible way, that is, completely.
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John Drinkwater
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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John Drinkwater
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
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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 knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
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 knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
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John Drinkwater
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