A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, ...
Quotes John Drinkwater
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or d...
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no ...
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the ...
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who i...
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can hei...
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is a...
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the for...
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is...
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even tho...
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experie...
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded sha...
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perceptio...
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect expe...
The written word is everything....
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the ...
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the ...
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government i...
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of the...
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is e...
When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild...
When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild...
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