Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so tr...

Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the
truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

quote by William Faulkner
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