Top 100 Poetry Truth Quotes
#1. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.
Procopius Of Caesarea
#2. sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside
Connor Franta
#3. The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?
Miguel Ruiz
#4. 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
#5. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
Alexander Pope
#6. Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.
Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.
Faraaz Kazi
#7. Do not lie to a lover. But on the other hand, do not always tell him the whole truth.
Afric McGlinchey
#8. Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
John Keats
#10. 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
#12. Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.
A.D. Posey
#13. In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#16. 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
#17. The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#18. 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
#19. If what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth
Robert Peake
#20. There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
Seamus Heaney
#21. Write from truth, write from self.
Writing theory or conceptual writing may be
A way to create new forms or styles but in the end?
The Words Must Be Your Own.
R.M. Engelhardt
#22. For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
Adam Gopnik
#23. Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.
E.B. White
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.
Sean Gabler
#29. 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
#30. LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.
Langston Hughes
#31. Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...
Soar
#34. To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything.
But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed.
(Soar)
Soar
#35. If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.
A.H. Septimius
#36. A Coy Aversion
...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...
Muse
#37. The truth is the object of our lust
But the light is still so very dim ...
Andrea Barbosa
#38. I didn't know the demons
that walked across your memory.
They came from the dust
when you were at peace
in your grave.
Susie Clevenger
#39. Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.
Adam McKay
#40. 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
#41. Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness.
Dejan Stojanovic
#43. A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that a fact or a weapon?
Margaret Atwood
#44. Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression.
Debasish Mridha
#46. If you wish to know the truth of who you are,
follow the voice that calls you home.
Go there.
For where our love is,
there we will be.
Frederick Espiritu
#47. 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
#48. The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
#49. You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.
Joseph Joubert
#50. 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
#51. To enjoy the joy in life, always be drunk with love and poetry.
Debasish Mridha
#52. 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
#53. Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
Victor Hugo
#54. 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
#55. I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.
Bryant McGill
#58. Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths ...
John Geddes
#60. Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
Grant Morrison
#61. Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.
Lauren Groff
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. choose your words well
(be honest, be true)
but
above all else,
be kind
Bryonie Wise
#66. Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.
Pleasefindthis
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom
Ashim Shanker
#72. The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.
William Faulkner
#73. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#74. My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth.
Nichole McElhaney
#75. Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.
Dan Simmons
#76. You're my story,
you're my poetry,
you're my flower
you're my deep driving desire.
Debasish Mridha
#78. You are the dream
But I've had wake up calls
Dawn Lanuza
#79. [It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.
George Oppen
#80. I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue
A.A. Patawaran
#81. Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution.
Christopher Josephs
#82. Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
John Keats
#83. 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
#85. My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite
Michael Levy
#87. 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
#88. Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.
Diane Glancy
#89. The deeper you look into Truth; your reflection of self disappears.
Deborah Brodie
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. Truth is a friend
that asks for loyalty
and acceptance
then it enters our hearts
dissolving the boundaries
freeing us from lonliness
Nirmala
#95. In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
Deborah Keenan
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see.
Scott Hastie
#100. 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
