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.

Quote by John Drinkwater

Topics: Quotes about John Drinkwater

Share on:

Similar quotes

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word...

#John Drinkwater

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted...

#John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

#John Drinkwater

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind...

#John Drinkwater

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet,...

#John Drinkwater

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be...

#John Drinkwater

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are...

#John Drinkwater

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is...

#John Drinkwater

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

#John Drinkwater