How frequently a touch by the shoulder, a handshake or a look tell more than can be expressed in a long monologue. Not because our speech is not accurate enough. Just the contrary. It is precisely its accuracy and definiteness that make speech unsuited for expressing what is too complex, changeful and ambiguous.
So to is the relationship between verbal or written language and imagery and theatre or ceremony. As a good novel contains meanings that a strong thesis can't hold.
Perhaps this also points the the significance of meditative experience in that the present is thought-less whilst our didactic thoughts fill the past and future, or rather our past and future are largely only accessible via thought; of varying forms but thoughts none the less, limited limited by their linguistic definiteness or accuracy compared to the more nebulous meaning of experience.
