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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 downAnd 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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
— Seamus Heaney
The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom — Ashim Shanker
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
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
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 profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice. — D.H. Lawrence
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
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 worthBut 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
For TrishaThe 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
I now know how your angercame 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
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
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 lieeven if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon