As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Poetry is the deification of reality. | Quoted in Life magazine (4 January 1963) | The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. | Quoted in Rosalie Maggio, ed., The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992), p. 247