Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.
Fred D'AguiarI found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
Fred D'AguiarPeople who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
Fred D'Aguiar