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John Drinkwater

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

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John Drinkwater means that poetry uses words to share feelings or ideas that cannot be expressed clearly by any other form of communication. It highlights the unique power of poetic language to convey experiences that ordinary speech or writing cannot capture.

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