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I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

A. E. Housman
Thinking, Peculiar, Vibrations
A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.154, Delphi Classics
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.