 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...  The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When - Page 97by Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | American literature - 1927 - 472 pages
...poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his thefts into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different...poet throws it into something which has no cohesion." Mr. Eliot then places next one another passages from Massinger and their "originals" in Shakespeare... | |
 | American literature - 1927 - 506 pages
...tests," says Mr. Eliot, "is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal ; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make...least something different. The good poet welds his thefts into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn;... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Criticism - 1928 - 206 pages
...the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate ; mature poets steal ; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make...poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.... | |
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