all who achieve constructions apart from themselves

Utterance is but an extension or limit of this process. Poems are but phases of utterance. The action that precedes and moves towards utterance moves toward poetry. The scientist compelled to make order of a hunch, the architect building the house in which to live, the dancer telling others' eyes what it is to move, an historian shaping a sum of events to the second law of thermodynamics, an economist subsuming under a fiction of value a countless differentiation of labor processes, a weaver making the garment that will drape to a body, the painter, the musician, all who achieve constructions apart from themselves, move in effect toward poetry.

Louis Zukofsky, "Poetry"