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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

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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

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

John Drinkwater

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

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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.

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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The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater

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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

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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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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Johann Georg Hamann

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