The truth of a work of art can be understood either in the classical sense, as a relationship between it and reality, or in the sense of coherence, having to do with the internal structure of the work. Ingarden denied truth in the classical sense to literary works. Other thinkers, such as Stróżewski, Gadamer, and Sparshott, are inclined to admit the possibility of a truth-oriented interpretation of literary works. The author of the article presents analyses of a number of short poems as examples of such interpretations.