Famous quote by 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"

Prose Failure Poetry

This quote is written / told by John Drinkwater between June 1, 1882 and March 25, 1937. He/she was a famous Poet from England. The author also have 19 other quotes.

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"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience"

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure"