Emily Dickinson Quotes about Lying
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.
c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.60, Harvard University Press
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.244, Harvard University Press