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

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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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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 is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. ↗

— 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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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. ↗

— 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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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— 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. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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