What is Poetry?

Poetry...
The art of putting words together and giving them a real meaning.
I think That Poetry works like that. Words do not have a meaning if they did not come out of our hearts.
Poetry can not be just a form of art and literature, It has to be something else. Can something as beautiful as poetry can just be a form of literature? Can so many emotions can just be a bunch of words written on paper with ink? Can That white field with black flowers which holds so many emotions just be that? I do not think so.
To Me, Poetry is how soul is transformed into words.