“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--”

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”

“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”

“I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? “For beauty,” I replied. “And I for truth,—the two are one; We brethren are,” he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.”

“The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.”

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”

“There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.”