Quote by John Drinkwater
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall imp

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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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

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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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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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