Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. – John Drinkwater
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. – John Drinkwater
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater