Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating…

C. S. Lewis
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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. Lewis (2013). Studies in Words, p.317, Cambridge University Press
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