Poetry most often communicates emotions not directly but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion only by means of that...

Poetry most often communicates emotions not directly but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C.S. Lewis

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I didnt go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable I certainly dont recommend Christianity.
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I now saw with great dismay that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.
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Poetry most often communicates emotions not directly but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all. C.S. Lewis

Poetry most often communicates emotions not directly but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C.S. Lewis