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What the world says about names

The naming of names is romantic. Onomastics is the poetry of the common man ...

Philip Howard, The Times [London], 07/01/2005

Place names are like fossil poetry.

Gregory McNamee, contemporary American author

Die Natur braucht keine Namen.

Max Frisch (1911-91), Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979)

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Salman Rushdie (1948-)

I had six honest serving men.
They taught me all I knew.
Their names were: Where, and What, and When,
And Why, and How and Who.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) (No, we don't understand it either.)

Isn't it marvellous how those astronomers know the names of all those stars?

Apocryphal