I try to make a distinction between enjoyment and joy. You are only prepared to enjoy what you already have a taste for; wheras joy is shocking and s… - Geoffrey Hill

The years will not
answer for what they have done, that much is
certain. There is no shaking them, we
might have foreseen this but refused.

Thus I grind to conclusion.

I think intelligence has a kind of range of sense and allows us to contemplate the coexistence of the conceptual aspect of thought and the emotional aspect of thought as ideally wedded, troth-plight, and the circumstances in which this troth-plight can be effected are to be found in the medium of language itself.