Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Tell all the truth but tell it slant - by Emily Dickinson (1830-1856)
Tell all the truth but tell it slant -
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind -
Is Dickinson talking about poetry or the nature of 'truth' as is or both or something else?
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Janette B. Fuller is a teacher and author of three books. Her business is to write stories set in the place she knows best – Jamaica – while also helping writers to write their own stories.
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