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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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.
--T.S. Eliot
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
--Wallace Stevens
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
--Jean Cocteau
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
--Horace
4 comments:
Nice quartet of quotes, Suzanne.
I like all these quotations - especially the Dickinson.
Am I wrong in recollecting that the Dickinson quote was, in fact, uttered by TS Eliot?
You're right. Shoot. I liked it more when it was attributed to Dickinson. ;-)
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