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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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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – 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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