Bernini: Bernini’s sculptural dynamism inspires poets to render motion in stillness: “He carved the angel mid-flight, / wings outstretched, the soul still bright.”; Poets borrow his theatricality to describe emotional climax: “Like Bernini’s Teresa, torn / by divine fire, she cried, ‘I’m born.’”; His ability to freeze ecstasy becomes poetic technique: “He made the marble gasp, and we / still feel the breath within the sea / of stone.”; A poet might write, “He showed us grace not as repose, / but as the moment before the rose / unravels into light and sigh.”; Bernini teaches poets to make the divine tactile: “Not in the hymn, but in the tear / that glistens on the saint’s cheek, clear.”; His fusion of movement and stillness models how to write ecstasy without cliché.