I also require students to memorize fifty lines of poetry and recite them to me, for, as George Steiner has often commented, to memorize something is in the truest sense to learn it “by heart.” And I have often noticed that when people write papers about poems they have memorized they tend to have a deeper understanding than is usual; they seem to have intuited the underlying logic of the poems—they get them,
what does this say for sermon prep?
