October 14, 2006

T.S. Elliot Poetry Quote

Immature poets imitate;
mature poets steal;
bad poets deface what they take,
and good poets make it into something better,
or at least something different.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique,
utterly different from that from which it was torn;
the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

- T.S. Elliot
September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

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