33 Quotes by John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

The Government does not have a policy on this, neither, to the best of my knowledge, did the previous Government.

And not a girl goes walking, Along the Cotswold lanes; But knows men's eyes in April, Are quicker than their brains

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

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.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

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.