“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. And from that need, from the relationships within ourselves and among ourselves as we went on living, and from every other expression in man’s nature, poetry would be — I cannot here say invented or discovered — poetry would be derived. As research science would be derived, if the energies we now begin to know reduced us to a few people, rubbing into life a little fire”.
The Life of Poetry, Muriel Rukeyser.