Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.