Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle. Edwin Hubbel Chapin 3 years ago Click to rate this post![Total: 0 Average: 0] Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle. RelatedThe idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.April 9, 2022In "Alone Quotes"I grew up in a bookless house – my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.February 22, 2022In "Inspirational Quotes"This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.April 17, 2022In "Inspirational Quotes"