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I hope
I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat,
A spade is never so merely a spade as the word
Spade would imply.

— Christopher Fry Venus Observed (1950)

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Cf. "Call a spade a spade"

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Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Where in this small-talking world can I find
A longitude with no platitude?

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The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.

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I hear
A gay modulating anguish, rather like music.

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The Great Bear is looking so geometrical
One would think that something or other could be proved.

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