Contact Quote by Randall Mann

“My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is…

— Margaret Atwood

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my…

— Kola Boof

“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.”

— Gémino H. Abad

“By the time that poem became the story “River of Names,”* I had made the decision to reverse that process: to claim my family,…

— Dorothy Allison

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”

— Charles M. Schulz

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

— Bjork

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

— Nikki Giovanni

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

— Hilton Als