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.
Copy QuotePoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Copy Quote View & SharePoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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