Peter T: In your earlier posting you say "Poetry is much the most important server of truth...". Are you strictly answering the question (ie you think poetry more truthful than philosophy) or is that a general reply?

I have to say that I have never found any truth in poetry, though I'm afraid that probably says more about me than about poetry. (I almost never bother to read the poems posted herein, not even those posted as songs, 'cos I think I was absent when poetry-appreciation was being handed out. I feel like a colour-blind man trying to understand colour.)