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. (T. S. Eliot)

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.

T. S. Eliot

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