It is possible to be too logical. We can become analysts or examiners and nothing else, and so sacrifice understanding. Without recognizing the poetic and mystical elements, and appreciation of them, analysis and examination have little value. Words, ideas and even things need a soul, even if having one makes them a bit more ambiguous. For example, I say poetic when I may not mean precisely that, although it expressed the sentiment I feel.
It may only partially express it, and even then may do so inadequately. However, it speaks of more than meter and rhythm. It means more than its definition, and to limit use to what the definition holds would be to rob the word, making us leave it unsaid. Aside from the word is what it symbolizes, and that is unique to the one who speaks it. When we become too logical, when we ask strict interpretation and rigid meaning, reality (as it really is) is lost, overwhelmed as its soul is buried under intellect and reason.
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