Quote by John Drinkwater
There can be no proof that Blakes lyric is composed of the best wo

There can be no proof that Blakes lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. – John Drinkwater

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – 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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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. – Ali ibn Abi Talib

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. – Henry James Sumner Maine

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For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years Ive been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you cant write past that. – Jacqueline Emerson

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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