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Context: Poetic truth is different from scientific truth since it reveals the real in its qualitative uniqueness and not in its quantitative universality. Poetry is the language of the soul, while prose is the language of science. The former is the language of mystery, of devotion, of religion. Prose lays bare its whole meaning to the intelligence, while poetry plunges us in the mysterium tremendum of life and suggests the truths that cannot be stated.
“What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.”
Book II, ch. 20 (p. 153)
The Ladder of Perfection (1494)
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Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
Song of Solomon (1977)
Address at the Convocation of the University of British Columbia, May 18, 1954
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things