John Drinkwater Quotes

John Drinkwater
English Poet
Born: Jun 1, 1882
Died: Mar 25, 1937
Art Best Poet Poetry Word Words
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
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
Man Few Moods Various Poetry Unstable Subjects Same Infinitely Arts While
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. John Drinkwater
Word Value Circumstance Poetry Imperfect External
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. John Drinkwater
Failure Will Impress Mood Kind Insignificant Recorded Having Shall Poetry Prose Fails Announce Been Verse Itself Either Capacity Ask Us Imaginative
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
Deceived Other Lyric Several Kinds Poetry Emotion Divisions True Suppose Real Personal Artificial Essence Being Which Then Each Wholly Expression Differing
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. John Drinkwater
Added Poetry Takes Verse Form Should Here
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
Life Experience Matter Men Completeness Sign Though Poetry Unconscious Course Intensity Being Which Appeal Even Universality Desire
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely. John Drinkwater
Best Experience Poet Way Says Possible Perfect He Felt Token Expression
The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
Word Everything Written Written Word
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. John Drinkwater
Best Knowledge Words Judgment Conviction Lyric Our Composed Proof Only Blake Accepted Order
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. John Drinkwater
Government Best People Will Analogy Say Kind Take Highest Most Democratic Realisation Mean Fulfills Function
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
Art Best Words Result Impossible Finished Recognise Classes Poetry Put Conditions Essential Different Order Which
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. John Drinkwater
Life Word Poet Perfect Selection He Makes His

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