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Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Memories, Writing, Energy
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh;