means Poetry is writing that uses rhythm, sound, imagery, and compressed language to evoke meaning and feeling more intensely than ordinary speech.

from From Greek 'poiēsis,' meaning 'a making' or 'creating,' built on the verb 'poiein,' 'to make.' To the Greeks a poet was literally a 'maker' — someone who builds something out of words. It traveled through Latin 'poeta' and 'poetria' into Old French 'poetrie,' and reached English in the late Middle Ages. The lovely buried idea: every poem is a thing crafted, not just spoken — language assembled like an object you can turn over in your hands.