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>Yes.
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>--- Doug Henwood
><<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk>dhenwood at
>panix.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 26, 2007, at 2:04 AM, Tahir Wood wrote:
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> > > Mediocre artists borrow; great artists steal.
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> > Wasn't that T.S. Eliot?
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Yes and no. Picasso said "an artist copies, a great artist steals" ("Un artista copia, un gran artista roba .")
Eliot said: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something...