"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
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John Drinkwater (1882-1937) was an influential English poet, playwright, and biographer, known for his vivid portrayals of the English landscape and the lives of its people. Born in the industrial town of Birmingham, Drinkwater's literary career flourished in the early 20th century, marked by a deep connection to the themes of nature and human experience. His works, such as "The Poet's Way" and "Abraham Lincoln: A Play," showcase his remarkable ability to weave emotion with intellect, leaving a lasting legacy in the world of English literature.
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"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"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"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"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"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."
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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."
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"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
John Drinkwater"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."
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