Quotes About Truth

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

A poem should not mean but be.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Poetry's object is truth.

What can be explained is not poetry.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.