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.
“I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.”
“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.”