Eliot noted: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." [3] One cannot spend life supressing all emotions and behaving in a rational manner. ...
Our education system places most emphasis on activities involving intellectual expression, such as science, and least on activities involving emotional expression, such as poetry and art. When we ignore aspects of our functioning, our dreams will redress the balance by giving 'symbolic' expression to these aspects, while at the same time attempting to give healing for the conditions', which cause us to ignore these aspects in the first place. ... Say your soul wants you to be less analytical rational in your approach to life and to incorporate intuition feelings into the ...
