William Wordsworth on poetry: “It’s object is truth … carried alive into the heart by passion: truth which is its own testimony.”
Tag Archives: truth
Quote of the day 05/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What we have to do is to find some larger truth that will include and reconcile the two apparently opposing and contradictory lesser truths.”
Quote of the day 05/12/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What then is the function of poverty in life, reality, poetry? Poverty means the closest possible approximation of these three things which in our ordinary manner of living are separated.”
Quote of the day 05/01/25
From Confucius: “If a man sees Truth in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret.”
Quote of the day 04/28/25
From William Blake: “Man’s perceptions are not bound by Organs of Perception. He perceives more than Sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover. The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
Quote of the day 04/25/25
From William Blake: “Everything possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”
Quote of the day 04/24/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The truth is like health or the air we breathe; we don’t realize it when we have it, it seems so common and tasteless.”
Quote of the day 04/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
Quote of the day 03/24/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Truth is expressible only in the form of a paradox. What is not paradoxical, is not true; is not living, inexpressible truth. Denial is the only way to answer, blasphemy the only praise.”
Quote of the day 03/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Sometimes the truth slides so gently into our minds that we are hardly aware of it.”
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