Truth and Fiction
Where a car turns into a street,
There truth and fiction meet!
poem by Jonathan Robin
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
quote by Dorothy Allison
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
quote by Jerry B. Jenkins
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
quote by Mark Twain
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Science Fiction Woman
She was my science fiction woman,
I was her science fiction man,
Yet our love was no fiction
In our science fiction land.
I wore my science fiction spacesuit,
She wore a spacesuit just like mine,
While we were floating together
In our science fiction minds.
She said her name was Taylor Trippy-
A flower child light years beyond-
She was a science fiction hippy-
A spacey and vivacious blonde.
She told me of our global warming,
Greenhouse gases, acid rain,
She told me everything I know
About the structure of the brain.
So we cruised through constellations
In our science fiction ship,
Transcending time and generations-
Forever free, forever hip.
She came from some unknown planet
In some uncharted galaxy,
And we were both kindred souls
In our cosmic fantasy.
And I don't know how I knew her
Or how we came to meet that night-
She was my science fiction woman,
Who traveled at the speed of light.
At night I look upon the ocean,
The distant stars where she might be-
She was my science fiction woman,
Who set my heart forever free.
June 17,2008
poem by Alexander Shaumyan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Telling Stories
There is fiction in the space between
The lines on your page of memories
Write it down but it doesnt mean
Youre not just telling stories
There is fiction in the space between
You and me
There is fiction in the space between
You and reality
You will do and say anything
To make your everyday life
Seem less mundane
There is fiction in the space between
You and me
Theres a science fiction in the space between
You and me
A fabrication of a grand scheme
Where I am the scary monster
I eat the city and as I leave the scene
In my spaceship I am laughing
In your remembrance of your bad dream
Theres no one but you standing
Leave the pity and the blame
For the ones who do not speak
You write the words to get respect and compassion
And for posterity
You write the words and make believe
There is truth in the space between
There is fiction in the space between
You and everybody
Give us all what we need
Give us one more sad sordid story
But in the fiction of the space between
Sometimes a lie is the best thing
Sometimes a lie is the best thing
song performed by by Tracy Chapman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
People In Other People's Lives They Have Never Met
Are you that person,
To take what you hear...
To be fact and not fiction?
Have you ever disliked someone,
Because of what you've heard?
Did you ever disrespect anyone,
To one day regret paying attention to gossip?
Helping to spread the rumors...
That defamed and shamed lives that were done.
And you had been the main one...
Wishing to pass on fresh innuendos to come.
And one day...
You just happen to meet,
The nicest person someone else introduced to you...
As the two of you met,
Coincidentally on the street.
And there you were,
Feeling embarrassed with remorse...
You and others,
Were the reason this person was divorced!
Well...
You are not alone.
There are so many people in other people's lives,
They have never met.
Nor have ever seen before...
Until they actually meet!
On the street or socially...
With wishes they could find someone like that,
To come home to and be happy to love.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The Maze
Time keeps on ticking without fail
As I'm on a downward spiral
Trip to hell
My mind loses grip of reality
While my life, unfocused,
Becomes a mystery
Fact turns to fiction,
And fiction to lies
As darkness invades
The soul of my eyes
Echoes of the past
Infinitely scream out
Drowning my hope
In an ocean of doubt
Overcome be fear
Controlled by rage
Love turns to hate
As I'm lost in this maze
poem by Matt Mondschein
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread,
And out we troop to see:
A single redcoat turns his head,
He turns and looks at me.
My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What thoughts at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
poem by Alfred Edward Housman
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
quote by Mark Twain
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.
quote by Mark Twain
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
quote by Mark Twain
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
quote by Edward Albee
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
quote by John McGahern
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
quote by Mark Twain
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
quote by G.K. Chesterton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
quote by Leo Rosten
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Fiction and Truthiness
He said:
'The best fiction reminds us of what truth ought to be
and simultaneously calls that truth into being
if it doesn't yet exist.
Poetry is heightened awareness of that Fiction-Truth
heightened because we often are blind to truths we need.
Story telling is the art form which reminds us we are in fact
a small band before the fire, holding back the dark. There we invent
stories of hope to get us through the night.
The writer lives inside what-is- not- yet as a hedge against bad times
which may currently exist, and preserves for the future precious meanings murdered sometimes by the present.
Speaking is a capacity of the thorax, writing is the way the soul speaks.
When speech is silenced we only have our imaginations against bad times and this has saved the world time and time again.
People die, ideas don't; that is the purpose of fiction.
The miracle of life is that I can shake your hand while dreaming of home.
The only true gift of life is that out-pouring of love from us humans into anything. Thwart that and meet Hell.
Truth is not linear; truth now may not be truth later; truth then may not be truth now, Truth travels but it is not the world that has changed it is that the world has changed us.
Find a man obsessed with the absolute truth of anything, religious or scientific, and I will show you a fanatic.
Truth is not enough even if it is true.
Find a man who thinks he is right about anything totally and I will show you a man with a stick ready to use it to prove he is right.
How many times have our ideals of what ought to be allowed us to kill, hurt and harm flesh and blood.
Ideology is a serious disease resulting from a prolonged exposure to Idiots.
The purpose of truth is to make human and life on this planet possible.
Untruth is what destroys human life and this planet.
poem by Lonnie Hicks
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
quote by Sydney J. Harris
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
Truth takes colour
Truth is like rain,
Which turns water
When collected on the earth.
Truth is like nectar,
Which turns honey
When gathered by hone-bees.
The truth takes
The colour of the speaker.
19.08.2009
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!