“ 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. ”
 T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (1920). copy citation

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“There is a great deal, in the writing of poetry, which must be conscious and deliberate. In fact, the bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. Both errors tend to make him "personal." 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. III ὁ δὲ νοῦς ἴσως θειότερόν τι καὶ ἀπαθές ἐστινAristotle, De Anima: "While the intellect is doubtless a thing more divine and is impassive."” source