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… Mysteries Require Odes, Not Emails | The Russell Kirk Center. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) 

In the Bible “verse is the idiom for the revelation of mystery,” for mere prose or plain statements cannot suffice to express the ineffable. The announcement of the incarnation, the ultimate mystery of faith, “requires an ode, not an email.” “To stir faith in things unseen, poetry evokes a deeper response than do abstract ideas…. We are grateful for an explanation, but we crave inspiration, communion, rapture, epiphany.”