Quote by John Drinkwater
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences t

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. – 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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Poetry
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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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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

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Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. – Sylvia Sidney

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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. – Creighton Abrams

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Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication Ive ever seen. – Frank Luntz

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People recognize certain things, like D means this dialogue stinks. Were dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity. – Dick Wolf

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