This is difficult to us, because we do not sufficiently distinguish, in our observations upon language, between a clear expression, and a strong expression. These are frequently confounded with each other, though they are in reality extremely different. The former regards the understanding; the latter belongs to the passions. The one describes a thing as it is; the other describes it as it is felt.

— A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful by Edmund Burke (The World's classics) (Page 198)