Beautiful Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poem is itself a mirror.

— Derek Walcott

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

— Carl Sandburg

The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.

— Derek Walcott

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

— Edward Abbey

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

— William Faulkner

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

— Margaret Atwood

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

— Nikki Giovanni

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

— William Faulkner

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work.…

— Neil Gaiman

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

— Jim Harrison