But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
- John Drinkwater