Is there wisdom which actually cannot be fully expressed except in poetry or

Is there wisdom which actually cannot be fully expressed except in poetry or

Is there wisdom which actually cannot be fully expressed except in poetry or literature or art? Or is addressing philosophical questions in such an "artistic" manner just a way of jazzing up an argument which could have stood cut-and-dried, anyway? Is there anything Homer could teach us which Plato could not?

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