John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater
perfectly poem saying sequence short
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
kind failing mood
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.
expression perception musician
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.
expression perfect way
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.
strength fashion blow
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.
best government policy previous
The Government does not have a policy on this, neither, to the best of my knowledge, did the previous Government.