Interpersonal and intercultural dialogue.

 

"The virtue of a global poetry day is that it puts poetry in focus. This day may serve as an inspiration also in multilingual and culturally diverse societies, which face the difficulty of how to make poetry available to the broader public, and how to harness it to build cultural cohesion and understanding." 

Statement of The President of the 55th session of the United Nations General Assembly on World Poetry Day 2001.