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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.
— T. S. Eliot
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
— T. S. Eliot
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This love is silent.
— T. S. Eliot
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
— T. S. Eliot
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
— T. S. Eliot
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
— T. S. Eliot
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