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Creativity is imagined as a force that exists before finished form.

Putting mind and marble together joins thought with material resistance. Saying they were made before they were formed suggests creation begins in latent strength, before any sculpture or idea is visibly complete.

'Creativity' is a three-line typed poem stating that 'The mind and marble are strong / And they were made before they / were formed'.

The poem pairs thought and stone as equally durable materials, and the paradox of being made before being formed places the creative act in a latent strength that precedes any finished shape. Its brevity works like an inscription, as if the idea itself were cut into marble.