„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

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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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.“
— Ayn Rand
„Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.“
— Rollo May
„What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?“
— Haruki Murakami
„Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.“
— Ulysses S. Grant