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.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.