The book is also published in hardcover

The Wisdom of the Poem is an enchanting book, and its magic is due to the fact that the author Dimitris Kakalidis, in his analysis always deals with the ontological fields of the poets. They of their own accord speak of the one, eternal 'Poet' - Creator - of the whole world. In the same way, in uniting all the ideas which the poets convey into one idea, all the concepts into one concept, he refers their Word to the one Word, the source of all Words.

The author studies the Word of the Poets and checks it against his own Word. His style differs according to the subject he is dealing with: sometimes it is purely intellectual, at other times it puts emphasis on the decoding of the symbolisms of words, suggesting the possibility of new ways of interpreting them; and yet at others it becomes poetic, and his text is enriched with verses, which render the analyses a work of literature. In some cases he employs numerology, as in The Wisdom of the Narrative.

The analyses, in whatever way they are made, deal with the existence of the two aspects of the Entity, of the opposite fields which exist potentially in man. The ability to express them is given to him. The one field is the restriction of consciousness, and the other is breadth, inner freedom, essence.

In everything, in the small and the great, in life and in death, in the formed and the formless, the author always sees the Entity, and it is this which he propounds. This shared approach to things, concepts, situations, and people gives great breadth to the analyses. Passions, instincts, desires, even the darker aspects of the unconscious are recognised as ontological manifestations which must be transformed into knowledge and love for their pure nature to be revealed in man.