Curated Quotations

John Drinkwater

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.” -John Drinkwater

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