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Poetry · Reflection
EMILY DICKINSON ~ ON POETRY
21 November 2011
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”
Emily Dickinson (American Poet, 1830-1886)
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde
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