Brighter Quote by Jonathan Swift

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

— David Hume

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

— Oscar Sparrow

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

— John Ciardi

And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not…

— George Chapman

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

Poets tell many lies.

— Solon

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort or another…

— Pete Seeger