Daughter Quote by Aulus Gellius

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

— 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

“... 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

“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

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

— James Russell Lowell

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

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

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand…

— Natasha Trethewey

This is truth the poet sings . . .

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

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

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds