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.


Studies in Words (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9781107688650

C. S. Lewis Quotes

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates...

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates...

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates...

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates...