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John Drinkwater
1882 – 1937 • English • Poet
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Showing 9 quotesAny 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.— John Drinkwater
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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.— John Drinkwater
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.— John Drinkwater
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.— John Drinkwater
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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
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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
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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
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