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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connec

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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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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Failure
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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
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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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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. – Laura Riding

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. – Azar Nafisi

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