Grazing in Good Metaphor

“Poetry is also good, for it stimulates the imagination, a faculty sadly neglected by the majority of preachers . . . the preacher ought never to part company with the poets. The objective is not to quote poetry in sermons — there is altogether too much of this — but to find worth-while sermon ideas, situations, and illustrations from the great poets” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 80).