John Drinkwater's Quote - A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but th

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but th

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. – John Drinkwater

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There can be no proof that Blakes lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. – 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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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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