"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."

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Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

John Drinkwater

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“The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.”
“But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.”
“Love is a verb and verbs show action”
“Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.”
“People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.”
“I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.”
“I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.”
“I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know”

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