“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Variant: For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
“A stranger here
Strange things doth meet, strange glories see;
Strange treasures lodg'd in this fair world appear,
Strange all and new to me;
But that they mine should be who nothing was,
That strangest is of all; yet brought to pass.”
"The Salutation", stanza 7; The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. 3.
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