There’s so much to takeaway from this image, but one line caught my eye. What did it mean exactly?

I didn’t know what was meant by “But tell it slant.” When I looked, I found it to be Emily Dickinson’s words (Poem 1129):

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

And, of course, Alexander Pope in “An Essay on Criticism,” which I had read back in college:

‘Tis not enough your Counsel still be true,
Blunt Truths more Mischief than nice Falsehood do;
Men must be taught as if you taught them not;
And Things unknown propos’d as Things forgot.

To capture the idea one more time, a quote:

“A sharp angle chisels truth from the marble of noise. The sculptor’s edge carves clarity from chaos.”

Oh, who wrote it? Perplexity Ai. Sure, after lots of prompting and back and forth. Still. I like it.