Christine de Pizan uses the verb ditier in her "Dit de la Rose" to describe her own activity of poetic composition, revealing the medieval conception of the poet as craftsman engaged in a skilled technical activity rather than a passive vessel of inspiration; Froissart employs forms of ditier in his lyric prologues to describe the composition of his poems for specific patrons and occasions, connecting the act of writing to the social context of courtly entertainment and commission; The word ditier appears in medieval poetic treatises alongside other technical vocabulary of versification, indicating that medieval French poets had a sophisticated self-conscious vocabulary for discussing their own craft and compositional practices; A student studying medieval French lyric should attend to the meta-poetic vocabulary of the poems themselves, words like ditier, faire, and trouver, which reveal how medieval poets understood their activity differently from the Romantic concept of inspiration and self-expression; The etymology of ditier from Latin dictare, to dictate or compose, connects French medieval poetry to Latin compositional practice and reveals how deeply the French lyric tradition is rooted in Latin rhetorical education and the culture of written composition; The transition from ditier as a common medieval term to the modern vocabulary of écrire, composer, and créer reflects the changing self-conception of the poet from craftsman and entertainer to autonomous creative genius across the Renaissance and Romantic periods.