Tell all the truth but tell it slant- success in circuit li… - Emily Dickinson

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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 suberp surprise
As lightning to the children eased
with explanation kind
the truth must dazzle gradually
or every man be bilnd-

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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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 suberp surprise As lightning to the child… - Emily Dickinson

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