â€Å‘Paradise Lost’ was printed in an edition of no more than 1, 500 copies and transformed the English language. Took a while. Wordsworth had new ideas about nature: Thoreau read Wordsworth, Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and we got a lot of national parks. Took a century. What poetry gives us is an archive, the fullest existent archive of what human beings have thought and felt by the kind of artists who loved language in a way that allowed them to labor over how you make a music of words to render experience exactly and fully. Robert Hass
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W. B. Yeats, one of the greatest poets in history, emphasised the importance of poetry. He emphasised it as a way of expressing one's emotions and feelings and as a way to understand the world around us.

It is true that poetry has been used to bring out certain aspects of the world and has been used to write about different aspects of life. Yeats also said: "Poetry is not a luxury it is a necessity."

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