"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
― John Drinkwater
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Poetry
― John Drinkwater
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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."
- "It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "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
- "The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."― Robert Morgan
- "Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way."― Isaac Rosenberg