Daughter Quote by Aulus Gellius

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

— Mason Cooley

Truth is the daughter of time.

— Aulus Gellius

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

“Desert this mad and unfounded obsession with the so-called truth. In pursuit of truth, you are guaranteed a long and perilous run through a…

— Tom Fahy

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up…

— Melvin Maddocks

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the…

— Henri Barbusse

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

— Robert Lowell

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

— Sun Ra

Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their…

— R. S. Thomas

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while…

— Margaret Atwood

“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.”

— Alice Hoffman