Dreams Quote by Charles Kimball

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

— Simon Schama

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

— Plato

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

— Anna Kamienska

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

— A. L. Rowse

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

— Edward Abbey

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception…

— Laurence Overmire

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

— John Ciardi

“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of…

— Robert Silverberg