Friday, July 11, 2008

poetry excerpt

Virginia Woolf in the introduction of her poetry novel, The Waves, states that 'poetry is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality', and that 'the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates'.

Reference:
1) Woolf, V. (1992) The Waves Penguin Books

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