Editing Prediction (section)

== Poetry ==
For the ancients, prediction, prophesy, and poetry were often intertwined.<ref name="Foundation">{{Cite web| date=2020-08-22 | first=A. E. | last=Stallings | author-link=A.E. Stallings | title=Poetry and Prophecy | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetry-and-prophecy | access-date=2020-08-22 | website=Poetry Foundation | language=en}}</ref>  Prophecies were given in verse, and a word for poet in Latin is “vates” or prophet.<ref name="Foundation"/> Both poets and prophets claimed to be inspired by forces outside themselves. In contemporary cultures, theological revelation and poetry are typically seen as distinct and often even as opposed to each other. Yet the two still are often understood together as symbiotic in their origins, aims, and purposes.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Franke|first=William|date=2016-05-09|title=Poetry, Prophecy, and Theological Revelation|url=https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-205|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.205|isbn=9780199340378}}</ref>