Elliot, ''Tradition and the Individual Talent''

“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.” –From T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” part II, paragraph 17).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/01/lack_of_personality_and_emotio.html

The Great Escape

“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.” (Eliot II)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/01/the_great_escape.html

"The other aspect of this Impersonal theory of poetry is the relation of the poem to its author. And I hinted, by an analogy, that the mind of the nature poet differs from that of the immature on not precisely in any valuation of "personality," not being necessarily more interesting, or having "more to say," but rather by being a more finely perfected medium in which special, or very varied, feelings are at liberty to enter into new combinations" (Eliot 3). http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DerekTickle/2009/01/the_perception_of_emotion_and.html

"Criticism is an inevitable as breathing, and that we should be non the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel and emotion about it." (Elliot)

"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" (Eliot).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/01/in_the_left_corner_weighing_20.html

Taking the personality out of poetry? I didn't think such a thing was possible.
“…the poet has, not a ‘personality’ to express, but a particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man, the personality” (Elliot, Part II, Paragraph 15).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/01/taking_the_personality_out_of.html

Who says they don't know what I know

“… French were the less spontaneous. Perhaps they are; but we might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism." Paragraph 2

"The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum. It may partly or exclusively operate upon the experience of the man himself; but, the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material." (Eliot)

"The emotion of art is impersonal."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyBouchard/2009/01/art_its_a_personal_thing.html

the dead don't come back to critique!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/01/shakespeare-and-twain-arent-am.html

"the mind of the mature poet differs from that of the immature one not precisely in any valuation of "personality," not being necessarily more interesting, or having "more to say," but rather by being a more finely perfected medium in which special, or very varied, feelings are at liberty to enter into new combinations."

History is the cheese on literature's macaroni.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2009/01/history_is_the_cheese_on_liter.html

"...but we might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CoreyStruss/2009/01/unconscious_criticism_-_we_all.html