Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
Max LuthiPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew ArnoldAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoeIf poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Seamus Heaney