A 'poet' is Greek for 'a maker' — someone who constructs new things from language. Scots 'makar' says the same.
Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
From Old French 'poetrie' (early 13th century), from Medieval Latin 'poētria,' from Latin 'poēta' (poet), from Greek 'poiētḗs' (maker, creator, poet), from 'poieîn' (to make, to create, to compose), from PIE *kʷey- (to pile up, to build, to make). The semantic journey is extraordinary: the Proto-Indo-European root meant simply to pile up or heap together — a physical act of construction. In Greek, this concrete sense was