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Tradition and the Individual Talent

T.S. Eliot

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1919
Pages
Pages 10

A shred of platinum is dropped into a chamber of oxygen and sulphur dioxide. The gases combine into acid; the platinum comes out inert, neutral, unchanged.

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.
Tradition and the Individual Talent, T.S. Eliot

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