Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape...

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Thomas Stearns Eliot
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, personality, emotions, things.
Thomas Stearns Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888 - 1965, english poet, dramatist and literary critic

Also called: T. S. Eliot.
Was born on: 26 sep 1888.
Died on 04 jan 1965, at 76 years old.
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