John Drinkwater Perfect Quotations

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

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.

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

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.