you're still you in your poetry

[sweetwater]

> to be thrown into the city
> with all its buzz and hum and hectic and
> after all this time of being alone
> with the sound of the ocean

> to deal with your own self and condition
> and struggles and worries
> and questions about how
> to go on and be

> to see life and people rush and run
> and struggle and stumble around you
> while trying to find your inner peace

> i know i don't know anything about how you
> appear and feel and perceive and are perceived and are
> in 'real life', but in all the posts you create

> you're still you in your poetry
> and in what you write
> and send across
> with your words and vibes!

> you're still you in your poetry
> and in what you write

[hester_prynne]

Thank you for this.
How did you know I really needed to hear/read this today?
Truly a fabulous read...
H

[sweetwater]

it was an email sent to me
it thought i'd share it

[Nazz]

who else?

[SmileGRL]

that's very true.

it was an email sent to me
i thought i'd share it

do you know who wrote it?

[Yejun]

“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.”
--TS Eliot

I'm not sure this is the best quote but this is the second post in two weeks that has triggered memories in me of Eliot's iconoclastic views of poetry and self.