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The word “poetry” derives from the Greek poiesis, which doesn’t refer to the writing of verse; it just means “making,” in general.

Presumably, Shakespeare’s play and Dostoevsky’s novel function as modern equivalents to Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King” and Homer’s epics, the ancient works that Aristotle drew upon in formulating his influential views about poiesis, the art of making.

We forget that poiesis and metaphor provides children with the skill to use rational thinking in outside-the-box ways.

Techné belongs to bringing-forth, to poiésis; it is something poietic.

The one is a thing grown, the other a thing made; the one a praxis, the other a poiesis: the one the offspring of tendency and indeterminate time, the other of choice and of an epoch.