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 DrinkwaterPoetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
John DrinkwaterGreat men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater