And it also applies to the sermon…
This is exactly how I feel!!! Well, not exactly I guess since sermons are meant to be oral in the end, but so similar…
Reading one’s own poems (sermons) aloud is like letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspetced bits of a poem (Sermon) to beoverweighted, overviolent, or daft, and the, suddenly, with the poet’s (precher’s) tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.
–Dylan Thomas