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Quote by John Drinkwater
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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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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Id never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. Ive always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. – Simon Armitage

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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