Names

We cannot do anything 

with an object that has no name.

-Maurice Blanchot

The name we give to something

shapes our attitude towards it.
-Katherine Paterson

Names have a mysterious transforming power.
Like a ring on a finger,
a name may at first seem merely accidental,
committing you to nothing;
but before you realize its magical power,
it's gotten under your skin,
become part of you and your destiny.
-Stefan Zweig

To name oneself is the first act 

of both the poet and the revolutionary.

-Erica Jong 

It's disastrous to name ourselves.

-William de Kooning

To name an object is largely to destroy poetic enjoyment.

-Stephane Mallarme

What signifies knowing the Names, 

if you know not the Natures of things.

-Benjamin Franklin 

Until we transform our Names,
we haven't found the Way.
-Yunus Emre

Perhaps it would be best not to name it all all.

Names are prone to vulgarization, to obsolescence.

-Harold Clurman

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

-Paul Valery

In Buddhist thought, 

there's the thing and there's the names for the thing

and that's one thing too many.

-Laurie Anderson

Another way of approaching the thing

is to consider it unnamed, unnamable.

-Francis Ponge