It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. John Drinkwater addformhabitually Change image and share on social
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 concerndelightfulentertain Change image and share on social
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. John Drinkwater endowlifemake Change image and share on social
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 appealcompletenessdesire Change image and share on social
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 announcecapacityexhaust share on social
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 artclasscondition Change image and share on social
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 eventgreatgreatness Change image and share on social
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. John Drinkwater longperfectlypoe Change image and share on social
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 analogycompletelydemocratic share on social
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. John Drinkwater circumstanceexternalheighten Change image and share on social
