Liars Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being.…

— Pablo Picasso

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

“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became…

— Erich Auerbach

While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted…

— Philip Sidney

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams

“As long as the sole ruler and disposer of the universe, the nous , remained excluded from artistic activity, things were mixed together in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

— Julian Jaynes

That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie,…

— Jacques Maritain

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

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

— David Hume

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

— Umberto Eco