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,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Tradition and Individual Talent'.

What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.3.

The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they no longer love.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.7.

And when the spring comes her hour is upon her again. 'Testhehand of Nature and we women cannot escape it.

-Gibbons, Stella Dorothea
   Judith Starkadder, of Meriam. Cold Comfort Farm, ch.5.

It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Wisdom of the Heart,'Creative Death'.

No manshould escape ouruniversitieswithout knowing how little he knows.

-Oppenheimer,J(ulius) Robert
  In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

No one can escape his destiny.

-Plato
Gorgias, 512e (translated byW R M Lamb,1967).

O! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes And Reason giv'n them but to study Flies? See Nature in some partial narrow shape, And let the Author of the Whole escape.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.453^6.

The familyöthat dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape.

-Smith, Dodie
  Dear Octopus.

At the age of14 I discovered writing as an escape from†being called a sissy by the neighborhood kids, and Miss Nancy by my father.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  In the NewYorkTimes,17 Mar.