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John Drinkwater
English
June 1, 1882
Poet
The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
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Everything
Word
Written
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
John Drinkwater
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Life
He
His
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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Poetry
Know
Something
There can be no proof that Blake's 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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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
John Drinkwater
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Experience
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