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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 –

Emily Dickinson

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Tell It Slant

Topic: Creativity, Culture, & the Arts

TELL IT SLANT

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 ― 

Emily Dickinson
Humanism, Arts and Sciences
Tell It Slant

Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition. Belknap Pres, 1998.

Emily Dickinson


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