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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of…

T.S. Eliot made this statement. It expresses his impersonal theory of poetry, in which artistic creation transforms experience rather than simply releasing the poet's…

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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.
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T.S. Eliot made this statement. It expresses his impersonal theory of poetry, in which artistic creation transforms experience rather than simply releasing the poet's personality and emotions.

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