“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology buried, like so many of earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.” —Salman Rusdie

Untagged tints
Glints incognito
Sassafras

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is —Derek Walcott

Tingling tones
Doppler dappling
Mistletoe

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic —Elias Canetti

Curious
Observers question
Perceptions

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are —José Saramago

What be we
Fabulous phenoms
Namelessly

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves —Terri Guillemets

Famed celebs
Reflecting, ponder
What’s in names

If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember ―Terry Pratchett

Whatsisface
Whachamacallit
Name me that

My parents used to call me ‘The Little Frog,’ because whenever they asked how I knew something, I’d say ‘read it,’ which sounds a bit like a frog croak —Talulah Riley

Sharp pointed
Peaky silhouette
Villain’s wuss

Respecting a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense —Erasmus Darwin

Ominous
Menacing eminence
Hissy puss

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable —W.H. Auden 

Crickety
Amphibious slug
Goggly mug

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something —Richard P. Feynman

Thus redubbed
Goggly slug became
Ugly bug

I confused things with their names: that is belief —Jean-Paul Sartre

Anon’s Tales
Fabulous phenoms
Names in lights

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see —Anais Nin Quotes