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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

Poetry, Truth, Fact

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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

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