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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to mad

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. – Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!

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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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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, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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