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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
