The Necessity of Poetry in Life

Listen to episode 1145 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Poetry in Life. Edited and adapted from Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poetry is truth expressed in the fewest possible words, in words which are inevitable, in words which could not be changed without weakening the meaning or throwing discord into the melody. To choose the right word and to discard all others, this is the chief factor in good writing. 

To learn good poetry by heart is to acquire help toward doing this instinctively, automatically as other habits are a...