The major creative use of language, already mentioned several times in earlier contexts, is poetry. Because verse enables the mind to preserve experiences in condensed and transformed form, it is ideal for giving shape to consciousness. Reading from a book of poems each night is to the mind as working out on a Nautilus is to the body—a way for staying in shape … Sometimes even one word is enough to open a window on a new view of the world, to start the mind on an inner journey.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow