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.

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• John Drinkwater:

  Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no oth

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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 kin

• John Drinkwater:

  The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, an

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  The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possib

• John Drinkwater:

  The written word is everything.

• John Drinkwater:

  There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a co

• John Drinkwater:

  To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something

• John Drinkwater:

  To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean

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  We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the be

• John Drinkwater:

  When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.