Poet Quote by Jim Harrison

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

— W. H. Auden

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, what hope has truth?”

— Steven Erikson

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

— John Ciardi

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

— Deborah Keenan

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson