Poetry as a "tool" for rewiring your thinking?

I thought of this after watching a short clip by David Whyte on imagination, in which he says there's a part of us that knows exactly what to say and the right person to say it to and so on, that was on imagination that isn't fantasy but actually some way of tying together and making sense of everything you see in the world. The title of another longer video I haven't watched yet is "language against which you have no defenses". Certainly the PMO habit has defenses against efforts to undermine it, we often hear people becoming discouraged after a relapse and the kind of rationalization is rather different than when they are on a streak.

As an aside humor is another channel where it catches you off guard, I suppose whereas poetry is the channel of beauty (seeing it in life, nature etc.) humor is the channel of joy and laughter.

Obviously it doesn't work in a linear cause and effect way, but with both there's really a way where things "click" and I'm thinking a regular diet of that kind of content is a good idea.