“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
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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 emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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