Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quote about truth from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.
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“ Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth. ”
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). copy citation

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Author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Source The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Topic truth poetry light
Date 1858
Language English
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quote about truth from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quote about truth from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.