Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John DrinkwaterTo 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.
John DrinkwaterAnd not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
John Drinkwater