May
13
Poetry and Lies
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Poets are Liars
If poets are but liars then I must be one of the best
This is, of course, a mild confession
For poets, tho’ liars by profession,
Endeavor to give an air of truth to their fictions
The poet lies for the improvement of reality
Though reviewers seem not to have noticed this
I don’t know that poets necessarily tell the truth about themselves
But great poets are liars with such impeccable gifts you think you’re hearing the truth
Believe in poets, and they are no longer liars
Though beware: he would be a liar who just spoke the truth
For it is the poets you do follow who go astray!
-Margaret in Richmond (search phrase: “poets are liars”)