There is a kind of pleasure, when one performs a complex movement "just so", that attracts some people to e.g. martial arts without the goal of learning to defend themselves. (It was so with me, but, well, socioeconomic reasons.) There's a kind of a message that some people get out of poetry, besides the 'prosaic sense' of it, which sometimes gets related in another piece of poetry or even a very different way. I used to wonder, what exactly is its impact on different people's understanding of the whole, & might not 'understanding' be an umbrella word for some orthogonal things... Some of which get called 'spiritual' for lack of a better term:)
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