Appearance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

— Audre Lorde

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

— Audre Lorde

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

— Jane Kenyon

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most…

— Sam Hamill

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

— W. H. Auden

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

“The condition of true naming, on the poet’s part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson