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. LewisThe point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
C. S. LewisOne is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
C. S. Lewis