Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
John DrinkwaterTo take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
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 DrinkwaterBut in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater