aphorist

noun

1. A person who creates or recites aphorisms.

   “Leaving the reader to study the details of the discussion in Dr. Ballantyne's aphorisms of the Nyāya (Part Second, pp. 77 ff.), I will pass over most of the Sūtras, and merely quote the principal conclusions of the Nyāya aphorist.”

   “In the examination of the revisions which these texts underwent, we have stolen a rare glance into the interior of the workshop of the aphorist.”

   “[Juhani Siljo]'s natural form of expression was the aphorism; he is one of the best aphorists of his time and in Finnish literature.”