Why do we need poets in our lives?

Question

I'd say Plato was right... what do you think?

Answer 1

It's not a question of needing poets in our lives so much as needing to see the poetry in our lives. Most are so busy concentrating on the mundane that they fail to see the sublime. A poet expresses in words the inner machinations of our own desires and allows us to feel whats behind the locked doors of our psyches. Oft times all it takes is metered rhyme or thoughtful discourse to free the imagination and allow it to once again see the world with the eyes of the child inside. The color of a rose, the swaying of branches, the scent of baking bread. These are the things poetry is meant to evoke. For those to whom poetry is a part of life, it tends to become the song of life and can be found in all things.

Answer 2

Poets see the world with different eyes and we need that unique perspective to remind of us of what it's all for. Where most would see the darkness and troubles of their life and look for someone to comfort them, a poet writes and spews their soul onto paper leaving inspiration for decades to come. Poets look out onto a battlefield and where other would see death or glory, they see a man's chance to become the man he'd dreamed of being. The average man could look at a homeless woman and turn away. Only a poet could look at her and write of the beauty she once held, call her "the Georgia peach," and stand up for her in her destruction. We need poets to remind us in our darkest hours and in our rush as we lose our senses that our souls are alive and burning to be fed.

Answer 3

For serious questions and troubles of the mind, poets are to philosophers what voodoo-priests are to doctors for serious troubles of the body. Me, I don't believe in voodoo.

By this, I don't mean that medicine doesn't have its myths and sorcery as well; nor that philosophy manages to be bland analysis. But that the world is complex enough for its mysteries and beauty to survive (even to multiply themselves) even during our fiercest attempts to resolve them, and this desperate trait is what makes the positivist road far more alluring than the errant avenue of poetry and the like.

Answer 4

Poets echo our values. In the haste bustle of life we sometimes grow callous. Poets brings us back to earth.

Answer 5

Poets can say what I want to say.

Poets can sing what I want to sing.

Their words claim the desire to change.

Right things happen, we think it strange.

Answer 6

Poets show us:

-Possibilities
-New ways of thinking
-The joys of life
-New ways to love

Answer 7

for exploring the depths of rhythm and rhyme,
to look deep in the muse of inspiration, to parallel
nature and thought so all is one and whole, poets
see the world as a hologram, all parts are everything
to each other, from the conscious to unconscious
sense of creating novelty from the habits of nature ~

Answer 8

if you think you don't need them you don't. but at least give it a try. but not trying it is like never seeing the grand canyon or the sun setting over galway bay. this is the one that eventually hooked me after years of resistance.
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/769/

Answer 9

I have no poets in MY life because I don't need them. You tell me about yours.

Answer 10

because they can put in beautiful words what we hold unheard in our hearts