"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.

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

 Samuel Butler

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

 Niels Bohr 

T.S. Eliot