Logo
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

Other quotes by John Drinkwater

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

Category:
Poetry
Author
John Drinkwater
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
John Drinkwater
Read Quote

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. – John Drinkwater

Category:
Poetry
Author
John Drinkwater
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, youve lost the whole thing. – W. S. Merwin

Category:
Poetry

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

Category:
Poetry

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

Category:
Poetry

You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. – Lucille Roybal-Allard

Category:
Medical

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. – Emily Greene Balch

Category:
Courage

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, Im sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and thats important, thats what leaderships all about. – Iain Duncan Smith

Category:
Leadership

Ive had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. – Elizabeth Edwards

Category:
Experience