Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the Kingö Else, wherefore born?

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Gareth and Lynette', l.117^18.

It isthespirit of theageto believethat any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

-Vidal, Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr
  'French Letters:Theories of the New Novel', in Encounter, Dec.

All fiction is for me a kind of magic and trickeryöa confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  In The Paris Review, no.17.

When you are old and greyand full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly how Love fled And paced among the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'WhenYou Are Old', complete poem. Collected in The Rose (1893).