Believe Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

“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

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— David Hume

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

— Plato

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

— Jonathan Swift

Poets tell many lies.

— Solon

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

— Anonymous

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess…

— Lactantius

“One Lesson, Shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shews, and what conceals, Never to blend our pleasure or our pride…

— William Wordsworth

“One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called…

— Michael Flynn