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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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We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. – 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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