Activity Quote by Charles Simic

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

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

— Mark Forsyth

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

— John Ciardi

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

— T. S. Eliot

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

— Bjork

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that…

— Margaret Atwood

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

— David Hume

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

— Margaret Atwood

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow…

— Mark Strand

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which…

— Giacomo Casanova

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do,…

— Theresa Breslin