“Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what is, not with what is truth.”
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“What is truth?”
said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. <br class="br">"Truth", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 24, Issue 1, 9 July 1950 https://academic.oup.com/aristoteliansupp/article-abstract/24/1/111/1779429
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