Lies Quote by Mahmoud Darwish

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Suzy Kassem

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.”

— R.J. Craddock

“Lies belong in poems”

— Kenneth Koch

“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .”

— John Berryman

“...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”

— Anonymous

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

— Derek Walcott