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John Drinkwater quotes: Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

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

John Drinkwater quotes: But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater quotes: The written word is everything.

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater quotes: It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater quotes: When you defile the pleasant streams,And the wild bird's abiding place,You massacre a million dreams,And cast your spittle in God's face

When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face

John Drinkwater quotes: This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

John Drinkwater quotes: If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater quotes: Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

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

John Drinkwater quotes: And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

John Drinkwater quotes: Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

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