The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas.... : Quote by Philip Larkin

“ The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs. ”

Philip Larkin
  • From : Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
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