The truth of the human experience is too awesome (complex, dazzling, varied, exciting) to be reduced to mere facts, hence the reason for great literature.
An excellent explanation (worth memorizing) can be found in Dickinson’s poem “Success in Circuit Lies”:
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 –
An excellent explanation (worth memorizing) can be found in Dickinson’s poem “Success in Circuit Lies”:
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 –