Quotes About Truth

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Poetry is not a luxury.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.