John Drinkwater Quotes and its meanings

What does John Drinkwater write about?

John Drinkwater has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about communication, failure, knowledge & poetry. People always share Communication quotes, Failure quotes, knowledge & poetry from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by John Drinkwater?

Here are the top most famous quotes by John Drinkwater.

• Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
• 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.
• 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.
• A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.