Celebrate National Poetry Month with some 'Cake'
Submitted by Jeffrey Schwartz on Apr 1 2019
One of my favorite lines in all of poetry comes from Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,” which defines true wit as “what oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”
These nine words seem, to me, the perfect definition of an autological statement: they express the property that they also possess. They are about truth and they ring true.
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