John Drinkwater Quotes & Sayings
20 most famous John Drinkwater quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.”
“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.”
“It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.”
“Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.”
“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”
“The written word is everything.”
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