Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of…

— e. e. cummings

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— David Whyte

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

— W. H. Auden

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

— William Shakespeare

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

— Voltaire

“She was good at that, repressing her feelings, disguising them as something else. Sometimes she thought it was the only thing she was good…

— Nicole Ciacchella

“Everyone in this world is nuts, the difference is some of them just really good at disguising it.”

— Rea Lidde

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

— Deepak Chopra

Do not make a hobby of disguising yourself as somebody else...

— Anonymous

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?" Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so…

— Alyson Noel

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

— Stanley Spencer