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Quotation from The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
“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 Sacred Wood, Philip Massinger (Project Gutenberg #57795)
Often misquoted, this remark judges poets by how they borrow from others.
Citation: "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." — T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, Philip Massinger (Project Gutenberg #57795). (id eliot-the-sacred-wood-q5)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
