Quote by John Drinkwater
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prom

The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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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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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. – John Drinkwater

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