Poetry has always been the ignition for everything. It’s what ignites my brain, lights the imaginative forces. If poetry didn’t exist, I’d be doing something else entirely. That’s how crucial it is to me. For pleasure, for work, to get started in the day—I read poetry. And it’s the last thing I read at night. It fuels my dreams.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Poetry has always been the ignition for everything. It’s what ignites my brain, lights the imaginative forces. If poetry didn’t exist, I’d be doing something else entirely. That’s how crucial it is to me. For pleasure, for work, to get started in the day—I read poetry. And it’s the last thing I read at night. It fuels my dreams." in the context of "On how much poetry means to her in “Language is the Way: An Interview with Cristina García” in Fiction Writers Review (2013 Jun 19)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.