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Poetry lies its way to the truth. -- John Ciardi
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. -- Plato
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. -- Samuel Johnson
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. -- June Jordan
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. -- Simon Schama
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. -- Seamus Heaney
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. -- Jean Marais
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. -- Muhammad Iqbal
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 has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. -- Maria Shriver
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
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. -- Laura Riding
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
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. -- Michael Graves
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. -- Marilynne Robinson
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' -- Giles Andreae
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. -- Jack Bowman
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. -- Huston Smith
poetry's object is truth ... -- Christine de Pizan
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. -- Robert Gilfillan
Poetry is a presentiment of the truth. -- Anna Kamienska
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth. -- Deborah Keenan
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences. -- Octavio Paz
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. -- Gunter Brus
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. -- Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. -- Muriel Rukeyser
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. -- Grant Morrison
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. -- Edward Abbey
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. -- Joseph Joubert
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. -- Henry David Thoreau
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. -- Ray Bradbury
Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies -- Oscar Sparrow
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. -- Umberto Boccioni
...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. -- Procopius of Caesarea
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. -- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. -- T. S. Eliot
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. -- Aberjhani
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. -- Herbert Spencer
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
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
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. -- A. L. Rowse
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought. -- Edith Hamilton
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
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
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
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it. -- Multatuli
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose. -- Charles Kimball
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome. -- Laurence Overmire
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further. -- Criss Jami
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truthâ?¦but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. -- Laura Riding
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
I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry. -- Charles Simic
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth. -- Ivan Turgenev
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
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry. -- George William Curtis
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth. -- David Lynch

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