I have read somewhere that the story is untrue, but I find it has a poetic truth.

I'm pleased with the results; behind the whimsical gaiety is a good deal of poetic truth.

The theory was ingenious, and not without a certain poetic truth.

The creation of poetic truth is achieved only through the destruction of what it seeks to represent.

Within the terms the sonnet has constructed, any claim to truth, even poetic truth, is necessarily compromised and made self-contradictory.

Birds have always held out the promise of higher knowledge, of poetic truth, of transcendence.

Many of the details of this novel preserve a poetic truth.

Returning annually, he had a dogged determination to find nature's underlying poetic truth.

There are poetic truths as well as scientific truths.

When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that.