Poetry Facts Quotes

#1. Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

William Faulkner

#3. When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was ... this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

Orhan Pamuk

#4. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar

#5. I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.

Mark Twain

#6. I don't need the facts. I'm a Pisces.

Phil Volatile

#7. I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

Annabelle Selldorf

#8. How many people must there be, who are completely unknown in this world, but they are famous in the sky.
There are people on this earth who may seem insignificant to you and me. But they are beloved to Allah and their name is constantly mentioned among the angels in the sky.

Nouman Ali Khan

#9. 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.

#10. When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

#11. Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

Edward Abbey

#13. I can dance like an angel, fight like a cornered bear, plan better than a fox, sing like a nightingale ...

Neil Gaiman

#14. In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.

Donald Hall

#15. There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

Edward Abbey

#16. Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

Rod McKuen

#17. Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. 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

#19. Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.

Jonathan Lethem

#20. One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.

Rush Limbaugh

#21. The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Jorge Luis Borges

#22. Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Carl Sandburg

#23. The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life-
Everything has a natural healing
process.

Sanober Khan

#24. Sammi watched him walk toward her.
He walked like a predator, a conqueror. A king who ruled and commanded all. He was sex and sin, decadence and sensuality.
He was, simply put, spectacular.

Donna Grant

#25. Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.

Mary Oliver

#26. I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

#27. We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

John Green

#28. I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

Clive James

#29. Thigpen gave her that cringing, sly feeling incompetents in denial always engendered. In government service, she'd felt it enough times to trust her instincts. Randy

Nevada Barr

#30. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

Richelle Mead

#31. I always had a fetish for murder and death.

David Berkowitz

#32. I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#33. Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact ... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

William Carlos Williams

#34. Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Carol Ann Duffy

#35. This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Terence McKenna

#36. A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#37. The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Bob Dylan

#38. Sometimes
the things that make you cry
are more beautiful
than the things
that make you laugh.

Sanober Khan

#39. No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

Michael Caine

#40. [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Niels Bohr