"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."

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Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

John Drinkwater

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“You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a MÃ¼ller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.”
“A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.”
“There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.”
“He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.”
“Dogs are a habit, I think.”
“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”

Source : "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.
“Writers are the engineers of human souls.”
“The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.”

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