Children Quote by Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum…

— Aulus Gellius

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

— Aulus Gellius

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“In olden days people said, ‘The father knows his son, the mother, her daughter.”

— Shin Jae

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

“When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, what hope has truth?”

— Steven Erikson

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a…

— Eavan Boland

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

This is truth the poet sings . . .

— John Greenleaf Whittier

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet…

— Tom Wolfe

“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps…

— Charles Simic

I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you…

— Guy Maddin