John Drinkwater Quotes
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. - John Drinkwater
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
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
- John Drinkwater
Moon-washed apples of wonder.
- John Drinkwater
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
- 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.
- 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.
- John Drinkwater
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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