Age Quote by William Blake

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

— William Blake

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

— H. L. Mencken

“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would…

— Plato

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

— Edward Gibbon

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to…

— Aristotle

“I am a firm believer in the ‘Power of Persuasion.’ Insomuch as, whatever you believe are your limitations, will become your limitation.”

— Tonny K. Brown

“To Drive Home a Point People think that the more they elaborate and explain, the more convincing they will be. They confuse quantity with…

— Bill McGowan

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

— W. H. Auden

“The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.”

— David Salle

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

— William Matthews

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

— Neil Gaiman

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of…

— Aristotle