Truth Quotes by William Faulkner
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Faulkner’s musings on Truth weave through the Southern landscapes he loved, exposing hidden currents beneath ordinary life. The 22 selections reveal his knack for turning simple statements into profound, lingering questions.
![“The poets are wrong of course […] 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.” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/118/william-faulkner-306_always-wrong_the-poets-are-wrong-of-course-but-then-p_3100133.jpg)
![“He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b32/william-faulkner-306_all-things_he-the-writer-must-teach-himself-that-th_1547279.jpg)
![“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/806/william-faulkner-306_compassion_a-writer-must-teach-himself-that-the-bas_1958386.jpg)
