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My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe. — Carl Sandburg

And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life. — Nicole Lyons

Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing down
And let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation — Steven A. Williams

And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths ... — John Geddes

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love... — Soar

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. — Seamus Heaney

The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom — Ashim Shanker

And in uttering that
Excellently executed truth
You become an artist too — Maddy Kobar

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. — James Russell Lowell

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me? — Charlotte Eriksson

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

Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core. — Lauren Groff

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is oblivious of age or gender — Rodney Compton

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. — Charles Buxton

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand. — Debasish Mridha

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life. — Debasish Mridha

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember. — Muriel Rukeyser

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know — John Keats

Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression. — Debasish Mridha

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. — Grant Morrison

Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God. ... And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us! — Mary Doria Russell

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. — June Jordan

The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice. — D.H. Lawrence

Poetry is truth ... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute. — Anne Rice

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer. — Debasish Mridha

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth. — Amit Ray

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe

Truth and effort may increase human worth
But they are not enough to make us whole;
Only love can complete us. — Ilchi Lee

To enjoy the joy in life, always be drunk with love and poetry. — Debasish Mridha

Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution. — Christopher Josephs

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. — Christopher Caudwell

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. — William Blake

For Trisha
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull. — Gregory Orr

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen.
Believing one's eyes
Is the difficulty. — Jean Monahan

I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them. — Susie Clevenger

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost

Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free. — Rabindranath Tagore

Truth is a friend
that asks for loyalty
and acceptance
then it enters our hearts
dissolving the boundaries
freeing us from lonliness — Nirmala

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. — Henry Miller

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves

Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry. — Adam McKay

The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain

Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see. — Scott Hastie

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon