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In Sanskrit formulations and analyses on the art of poetry, its place and purpose, its styles and techniques, the important thing is for its message to be implicit rather than explicit, to give hints and clues rather than revelations, to use suggestive imagery rather than to deliver plain statements--but, as with our own Western work, to use myth, metaphor, and symbol to arouse feeling and release emotion.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 123