Quotes by John Drinkwater - Page 1

The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater / Poet
Written
Written Word
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
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Form
Should
Verses
Added
Verse
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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
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Sequence
Perfectly
Poe
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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Circumstances
Ifs
Imperfect
External
Circumstance
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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Perfect
Poet
Selection
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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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Art
Connections
Finished
Song
Connection
No Connection
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Communication
Certain
Way
Experiences
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This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
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Goal
Mind
Soul
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And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
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Girl
Men
Eye
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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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Great
Men
Poetry
Events
Greatness
Poet
Men Great Man
Man
Rare
Great Man
His
Rarer
Rarest
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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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Art
Men
Mood
Subjects
Unstable
Arts
Infinitely
Moods
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When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face
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Dream
Nature
Bird
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Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.
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Strength
Blow
Fashion
Steel
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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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Accepted
Blake
Conviction
Judgment
Order
Proof
Composed
Lyric
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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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Expression
Perfect
Way
Best Experience Way
Token
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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.
John Drinkwater / Poet
Concerned
Delightful
Entertaining
May
Poet
Certainly
Far
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In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.
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Apples
Moon
Sleep
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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 / Poet
Art
Class
Conditions
Finished
Impossible
Order
Recognise
Classes
Essential
Result
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
John Drinkwater / Poet
Accepted
Achievement
Literature
Lost
Paradise
Poetic
Supreme
Taken
Two
Type
Among
Asserted
English
Commonly
Justly
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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 / Poet
Men
Completeness
Desire
Intensity
Matter
Unconscious
Universality
Life Experience Men
Appeal
Sign
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The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
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Expression
Musician
Perception
Finds
Prompted
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To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
John Drinkwater / Poet
Government
Democratic
Mean
People
Realisation
Best Government People
Analogy
Fulfills
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
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Drama
Epic
Long
Narrative
Persistent
Poetic
Related
Succession
Distinct
Experiences
Governed
Separate
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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 / Poet
Failure
Capacity
Failing
Imaginative
Impress
Insignificant
Kind
Mood
Prose
Announce
Either
Fails
Recorded
Shall
Verse
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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 / Poet
Artificial
Deceived
Emotion
Essence
Expression
Real
Differing
Divisions
Suppose
Lyric
Personal
Several
Wholly
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