What good writing might evoke

It might evoke a dialectic between stirrings and stillness.

or  Man’s loneliness (the isolation of the human situation).

or, The facts of birth, and of death, in their inexplicable oddity.

or,  The inconceivable immensity of the universe.

or, . Man’s place in the perspective of time.

or . Cosmic lonliness and that there is no limit, no space stops here,  eternity and infinity, no limit of any kind ... such as a fence or other manner of bourne from which to return’

and so every self-assertion leads to a self-cancelling.

Hopefully it might let us accept the enormity of our ignorance


source I A Richards Practical Criticism,