The Importance of Reading Poetry

Reciting poetry is a good exercise in befriending that inner voice. We're not trying to get to know other people better or increase our self-awareness but through pleasurably and freely reading and rereading the things that are most meaningful to us we cannot help but grow. i see poetry ultimately as being something of a life force something that we can draw nourishment from and we can renew ourselves in the reciting of poetry.