"It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse."

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

John Drinkwater

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“I don't get hit on enough.”
“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “Addresses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.”
“Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.”
“Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!”
“So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.”
“Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.”
“Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.”

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