"The poetry in greek has exactly this meaning: poetry (poiesis) means "to make that something extraordinary happens". The scots use the word maker (the one that makes) to refer to a poet, but often they write it makar that in greek is makarios and means "blessed" or "happy".
Robert Graves, Difficult questions, easy answers
*and jorge luis borges has a poem named "el hacedor" that means: the maker
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