Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
T. S. EliotBetween the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
T. S. Eliot