With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'
T. S. EliotSomeone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
T. S. EliotIn a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
T. S. Eliot