Essence Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

— Anna Kamienska

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

— Deborah Keenan

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of…

— Multatuli

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

— Octavio Paz

The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will…

— Denise Duhamel

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but…

— Ivan Turgenev

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

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow