Poetry
McConkie wrote several poems, a few of which he read in various general conference addresses. One for which he is especially remembered is the poem I Believe in Christ, delivered in a 1972 General Conference address, "The Testimony of Jesus". It was later set to music and published in the LDS Hymnal, as Hymn #134, "I Believe in Christ" and has since gained popularity among members of the church.
McConkie also penned the fourth verse to Hymn #21, "Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice".
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“Finally, in the last year of her age,
Having attained a present blessedness,
She said poetry and apotheosis are one.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelley’s poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life is a vision of beauty and radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is “a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.””
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“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
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