[lbo-talk] No Quest for the New (Re: Wish I Was ...

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 26 10:06:56 PST 2007



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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:
> >
> > > Mediocre artists borrow; great artists steal.
> >
> > Wasn't that T.S. Eliot?
> > ___________________________________
> >

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...



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