“Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldMayFactsPoetColdTruth IsFancyFlatsWrapsFieryHawks Author:Stevie Smith
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]” SaidTruthRememberNamesPoetTruth IsDaughter Author:Aulus Gellius
“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are” TruthFacesPoetryFightingBlackWhiteDyingPoetTruth IsRacismMouthsBlack And WhiteFace To Face Book:Odes Source: Odes
“I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.” WayArtSaidBehindsFictionPoetTruth IsJokesFiction WritersCorrectingManicWriters And Poets Author:T.C. Boyle
“The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.” IfsWritingMeanDoeFeelingsEmotionForeverParticularPoetTruth IsRemains Author:Denise Duhamel
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'” SaidTruthRememberMotherNamesPoetTruth IsDaughterPoetic Author:Abraham Lincoln
“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.” IfsStoriesPoetTruth Is Author:Jim Harrison