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John Drinkwater Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry Picture Quote #1

The written word is everything Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events Picture Quote #1

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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry Picture Quote #1

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way (John Drinkwater Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry (John Drinkwater Quotes) The written word is everything (John Drinkwater Quotes) 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 Quotes) When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life (John Drinkwater Quotes) 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 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 (John Drinkwater Quotes) To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential (John Drinkwater Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 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 (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 (John Drinkwater Quotes) Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them (John Drinkwater Quotes)