Re: The English Language Can Only Convey So Much...

[zenmaster]

Isn't there utility in using poetic and metaphorical expressions when language cannot relay internal experiences? Or artistic expression?

Poetic and metaphorical expression rely on the same evaluation of experience, except the faculty used is going to be that of feeling which is an attempt at a holistic treatment of a concept. That is, feeling is where we consider something with some kind of periphery of wholeness. And since we are not yet whole, the conceptual apprehensions related from that attempt will of course also fall short.

Since we know about (external/internal) things and processes through other things and processes, examples of analogy and metaphor can have a great deal of utility - again, limited by what experience can provide.