My father gave me a book for Christmas titled Where Good Ideas Come From — The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson. The book opens with a nice quote from Shakespeare that I think some of you patent poets might like:
. . . an imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
— Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.i. 14-17