“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.”
— John Drinkwater
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Poetry being the sign of that which
“Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.”
— John Drinkwater
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A lyric, it is true, is the
“A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.”
— John Drinkwater
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Poetry is the communication through words of
“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”
— John Drinkwater
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So it is in poetry. All we
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”
— John Drinkwater
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It should here be added that poetry
“It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.”
— John Drinkwater
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If it is an imperfect word, no
“If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.”
— John Drinkwater
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So it is in poetry. All we
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”
— John Drinkwater
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But in the finished art of the
“But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”
— John Drinkwater
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We recognise in the finished art, which
“We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.”
— John Drinkwater
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Poetry is the communication through words of
“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
Category: communication
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