John Drinkwater Quotes


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



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



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. - John Drinkwater