Top 100 Poetry And Truth Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#5. Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.
Rabindranath Tagore
#6. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom
Ashim Shanker
#7. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery
Irum Zahra
#8. Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.
Amit Ray
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
Allison Mackie
#12. There is a deep truth in being at home enough with someone to kiss them while your lips are dry. And happiness may not be the greatest of things to hear, but it should be.
Mikl Paul
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
Charles Caleb Colton
#16. I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.
Susie Clevenger
#17. 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
#18. Poetry aims for an economy of truth - loose and useless words bust be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions - beautiful writing rarely is.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#19. People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.
Harold Bloom
#20. Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.
Lauren Groff
#21. A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
Grant Morrison
#23. A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably ... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
Aristotle.
#24. And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.
Nicole Lyons
#25. Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths ...
John Geddes
#26. 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
#27. The difference between poets and mystics ... The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.
Neal Stephenson
#28. All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#29. 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
#30. Your words on the screen are my color palette
I dip my brush into your words and paint you
On the sky, on the ceiling, on the snow; on the tablet
Of things eternal : love truth beauty happiness
Richard L. Ratliff
#31. Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see.
Scott Hastie
#32. a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time--
no heart can leap, no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea
For love are in you am in i are in we
E. E. Cummings
#33. 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
#34. The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
Jane Kenyon
#35. 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
#36. Truth and effort may increase human worth
But they are not enough to make us whole;
Only love can complete us.
Ilchi Lee
#37. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Robert Graves
#38. Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.
Ben Lerner
#39. Truth is a friend
that asks for loyalty
and acceptance
then it enters our hearts
dissolving the boundaries
freeing us from lonliness
Nirmala
#40. We could scan each car for terrorists
and lovers she could lean into
my camouflage her head resting on woven trees.
When they come for her body she could run deep
into my uniform
into the forest of me
where they could never find her.
Jalina Mhyana
#41. The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.
D.H. Lawrence
#42. Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.
Mary Ruefle
#43. The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
Adrienne Rich
#44. Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#45. 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
#46. a body betrayed
a heart destroyed
a mind in confusion
and yet a woman
is capable of taking pain
and transforming it into triumph
R H Sin
#47. Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation.
Paul Valery
#48. What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams, all beautiful mysteries, all lies? What is truth, can you tell me that? You see, we only advanced by way of symbols, and we change the symbols as we progress.
Knut Hamsun
#49. The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
Edgar Allan Poe
#50. Truth is everywhere, and easily seen.
Believing one's eyes
Is the difficulty.
Jean Monahan
#51. Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand.
Debasish Mridha
#52. In the sacred connectedness of Love...
My consciousness has evolved enough to comprehend this existence is equivalent to a grasp of a dream, mentally unfathomable, the only potency is the truth of this moment.
Much love, peace and smiles to all~
Dean Pusell
#53. Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
Christopher Caudwell
#54. Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution.
Christopher Josephs
#55. Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#56. A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist's task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist's version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice.
Kate Kearns
#57. The statement 'There is nothing more American than an Indian' happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Charles Slagle
#58. To discover the source of this alchemical love within is to uncover the deepest secrets of the soul. It is to unearth and align with the ultimate truth of who we are.
Atalina Wright
#59. 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
#60. What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.
Matsuo Basho
#61. The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain
#62. Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.
Matthew Arnold
#63. Either there is a God, and that God the perfect heart of truth and loveliness, or all poetry and art is but an unsown, unplanted, rootless flower, crowning a somewhat symmetrical heap of stones.
George MacDonald
#64. From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset
Criss Jami
#65. confront your greatest fears
voice your biggest problems
acknowledge your tiniest issues
the longer you stay silent
the louder they become
they won't disappear if you ignore them
they will spread and affect all aspects of your life
Connor Franta
#66. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.
Procopius Of Caesarea
#67. My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.
Julia Margaret Cameron
#68. today my heart was ripped in two
one half for me, one half for you
take a half and keep it near
i have mine and will always be here
crossing paths before the end
once a lover, forever a friend
Connor Franta
#69. Oh, what is brighter than the light?
What is darker than the night?
What is keener than an axe?
What is softer than melting wax?
Truth is brighter than the light,
Falsehood darker than the night.
Revenge is keener than an axe,
And love is softer than melting wax.
Cassandra Clare
#70. There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
Seamus Heaney
#71. The poet ... is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs ... the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
Jacques Derrida
#72. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?
Charlotte Eriksson
#73. Dare to Dream
Yes, if you can dare to dream.
Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.
While all else seems to fail.
Truth shall forever prevail.
(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within
Madhavi Sood
#74. Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
#75. And in uttering that
Excellently executed truth
You become an artist too
Maddy Kobar
#76. Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
Ben Jonson
#77. Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#78. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
John Keats
#79. Poetry is truth ... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute.
Anne Rice
#80. 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
#81. Because two bodies, naked and entwined,
leap over time, they are invulnerable,
nothing can touch them, they return to the source,
there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,
no yesterday, no names, the truth of two
in a single body, a single soul,
oh total being ...
Octavio Paz
#82. Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#83. Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.
Steve Yarbrough
#84. To enjoy the joy in life, always be drunk with love and poetry.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Verse is everywhere in language where there is rhythm, everywhere, except in notices and on page four of the papers. In the genre called prose, there are verses [ ... ] of all rhythms. But in truth there is no prose: there is the alphabet, and then verses more or less tight, more or less diffuse.
Stephane Mallarme
#86. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
Aberjhani
#87. Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.
Shane Koyczan
#88. My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
Carl Sandburg
#89. Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
#90. Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression.
Debasish Mridha
#92. A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth.
Sherman Kennon
#93. The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
Robert Greene
#94. I know why you did. That's what I want for you...to have the things you deserve. I want you to have that, and not feel guilty about how you got it. You told me the truth. You don't have to give me poetry to ease the blow.
Alexandra Bracken
#95. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
#96. 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
#97. The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
Muriel Rukeyser
#98. Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.
Adam McKay
#99. In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
Northrop Frye
#100. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
