Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“I was the poison breather.
I was a professional,
but you saved me
from the awful babble
of that calling.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)