The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an…

T. S. Eliot
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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked. ✨ The Sacred Wood Hamlet and His Problems (1920).
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