Stanley’s perspective of poetry.

‘A poem trembles on the verge of lapsing into music, of breaking into dance; but its virtue lies in resisting the temptation – in remaining language’ ~ Stanley Kunitz

Image Credit: By Claude Michel “Clodion” (1738-1814) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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    Mohammed Latif

    “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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