Poetry is as universal as language and almost as ancient. The most primitive peoples have used it, and the most civilized have cultivated it. In all ages and in all countries, poetry has been written, and eagerly read or listened to, by all kinds and conditions of people by soldiers, states-men, lawyers, farmers, doctors, scientists, clergy, philosophers, kings, and queens. In all ages it has been especially the concern of the educated, the intelligent, and the sensitive, and it has appealed, in its simpler forms, to the uneducated and to children. Why?

The author also points out in his text that at all times poetry is an alternative form of fun, a way of feeling fully realized, and without poetry we would all be spiritually impoverished. But, to understand this, it is necessary for people to know more deeply what poetry is, since in this aspect people are more concerned with appreciating it than giving it a definition.