The Importance of Poetry in Science

Is it possible that poetic ways of describing those get closer to some kind of truth for those areas that science can't cover? My favorite poet is W.B. Yates, notorious mystic. Obviously, I have no sympathy, whatever, with his belief in fairies and things like that. But I resonate to his poetry. What's he feeling there when you're reading a W.b. Yates poem and you say you resonate? It's hard for me to explain. And so as a scientist, I want to know what is actually true about the universe. They are true for these subjective, what's going on in his own mind, yes.