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Poetry

/ˈpoʊətri/

Literary work in which language is chosen for its beauty and rhythm.

The Greek roots

ποίησις
poíēsis
a making, creation

Literally: the act of making

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The story of the word

A poet was quite literally a 'maker'. Poíēsis meant creation itself before it came to mean crafted verse.

The same roots elsewhere

Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.

In a sentence

He filled notebooks with poetry no one else read.

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