Some Interesting Quotes on Poetry Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. - Edgar Allan Poe A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. - E. M. Forster Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. - Samuel Johnson To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. - Octavio Paz