Poetry

From the Greek ποίησις, derived from the verb ποιέω, which means “to create” or “to make.”1 See also the Danish verb digte, derived from the Latin dictare (“compose,” or “write”), meaning “create,” “narrate,” “make up,” and related to the Danish noun digter, meaning “poet” or “author.” In Danish, poesi connotes not only poems in verse form but literary creation of all kinds, just as a digter is not merely a writer of verse, but an author of literary art more generally.2