John Drinkwater Quotes
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An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
— Publilius Syrus
If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up!
— Benny Bellamacina
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.
— Hoagy Carmichael
They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.
— John Crowley
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
— John Drinkwater
And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
— John Drinkwater
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
— John Drinkwater
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
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
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
— John Drinkwater
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
— John Drinkwater
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
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
— John Drinkwater
The written word is everything.
— John Drinkwater
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
— John Drinkwater
No one is good all the time.
— Sarah Fine