John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. He was known before World War 1 as one of the Dymock poets, and his poetry was included in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry. After World War I, he achieved fame as a playwright and became closely associated with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
All Quotes by John Drinkwater
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
—John Drinkwater
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
