Quote#Poetry
Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry…
Quote byHezekiah Butterworth · 1839–1905
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1906) Introduction, p. ix — written with Theron Brown.
English (original)
Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry without emotion, but a hymn never.
— Hezekiah Butterworth
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