In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way.
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