John Drinkwater is the name of: (wikipedia)
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.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
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.
And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
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.
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.
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
