Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what i… - Herbert Edward Read

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Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what is, not with what is truth.

Herbert Edward Read

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Sir Herbert Edward Read (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner.

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Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what is, not with what is truth. - Herbert Edward Read

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