Being true Quote by W. H. Auden

Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.

— Janet Fitch

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of…

— Multatuli

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

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

— Ray Bradbury

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

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

— Jim Harrison

I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems,…

— Lawrence Joseph

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

— Ray Bradbury

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Hilton Als