William Faulkner: 10 quotes for his birthday

To celebrate his birthday, here are 10 profound, unique, and inspiring quotes from William Faulkner, one of the greatest American writers of all time.

2. Poetry

"But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it."  

– from "The Town" (1957)

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