Quotes About Truth

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

History after all is the true poetry.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

In the shade of words sits life itself.

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

True poetry is embarrassing.

The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.