What is poetry important?
Nobody would ask why sign language is important. And I’d guess most people who never use or even think much about sign language would still agree the whole world is better from its existence. Poetry is much the same. It’s a language that, to mis-paraphrase Jim Harrison just a little, allows souls to speak--souls with so much truth and fire and experience and power in them, souls that would otherwise be trapped in a frustrated silence. And the world would be without their beauty and insights too, without poetry.
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