The quest to express infinite religious truths through finite human language creates a fundamental paradox that both poets and theologians must navigate. Through phenomenological analysis of the creative process, Muffs reveals striking structural parallels between aesthetic sensibility and religious experience, particularly in how both domains engage the full spectrum of human perception. Poets and prophets alike struggle to transcend ordinary language's limitations while remaining bound by formal constraints - a tension that generates rather than inhibits profound expression. The midrashic tradition exemplifies this productive synthesis of legal rationality and poetic imagination, neither literally interpreting religious imagery nor stripping it of mythic power, but rather reinventing biblical narratives through creative retellings. Comparative analysis of poetic and religious discourse demonstrates that authentic theological understanding inherently requires poetic sensibility, as religious truth manifests through suggestive, multivalent language resistant to systematic reduction. Rather than conflicting, aesthetic appreciation and religious commitment emerge as complementary modes of encountering reality's ultimate mystery, with theological discourse necessarily incorporating poetic structures and meanings in its attempt to bridge finite and infinite realms.