John mentioned this quote to me and I had to find it’s source as http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borrow-great-poets-steal-not/ did. Turns out it is from criticism that T.S. Eliot wrote about Philip Massinger. It is a good notion that the really smart people just keep improving upon what others ahve done.
One of the surest tests [of the superiority [...]
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Tags: Cohesion·Great Poets·Inferiority·Mature·Notion·Poet·Superiority·T S Eliot