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Top 20 John Drinkwater Quotes (2025 Update)

John Drinkwater Quote: “Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.”

1. “Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “The written word is everything.”

2. “The written word is everything.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.”

3. “When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

4. “Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men’s eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.”

5. “And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men’s eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.”

6. “The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”

7. “Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”

8. “Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”

9. “But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.”

11. “This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.”

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

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.”

14. “In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.”

19. “It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government – the realisation of the will of the people.”

21. “To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government – the realisation of the will of the people.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.”

22. “It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.”

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John Drinkwater Quote: “The poet’s perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.”

23. “The poet’s perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.”

— John Drinkwater

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