Poetry and the brain
I like this passage in Mark Turner’s article, Poetry for the Newborn Brain:
This… reminds me of something Paul Valéry said in The Art of Poetry: “Poetry can be recognized by its ability to get us to reproduce it in its own form: it stimulates us to reconstruct it identically.” Poetry so thoroughly harmonizes with the predispositions of the human brain that it flows into the brain and occupies it, sowing there the seed of its own replication.