Taylor Swift <3's poetry! OMG!

One of the perks of super-stardom is getting total strangers to like what you like. That's especially cool when star power is used to promote reading, and that's exactly what music sensation Taylor Swift did when she visited the headquarters of Scholastic Inc. to chat with 200 fawning fans about the awesomeness of books, reports the AP:

"(Without books) You can let little things pass you by, little details," she said. "Like, say you're driving down the road and there's just this really beautiful autumn tree and it has these gorgeous orange leaves. You might just let that pass you by if you have never read books that describe how beautiful they are, from somebody else's perspective."

Plus, she put in a good word for poetry to boot:

"A lot of people who gravitate toward music are really, really sort of drawn to poetry because the words all have a rhythm and it comes together just right," she said. "I love poetry, because if you get it right, if you put the right rhymes at the right ends of the sentences, you can almost make words bounce off a page."