"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."

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Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

John Drinkwater

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“Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]”
“Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.”
“Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.”

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“Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.”
“No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.”
“You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.”
“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.”

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