"[Literature and the arts] invite or invoke, at a ki nd of “first level,” an aesthetic experience that is by its nature resistant to restatement in more formalized, theo retical or generalizing language."

[joseph berg]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/in-defense-of-naive-reading/

"Literature and the arts have a dimension unique in the academy, not shared
by the objects studied, or researched by our scientific brethren. They
invite or invoke, at a kind of first level, an aesthetic experience that
is by its nature resistant to restatement in more formalized, theoretical or
generalizing language."