Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- James Russell Lowell, (Feb 22 1819-1891), US poet, critic, editor, diplomat; He was the first editor of Atlantic Monthly, 1857-61; ambassador to Spain and Great Britain, 1877-85.