A generous parent would have said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” - Thomas Paine

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, [...]