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• Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. ELIOT
• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -- T.S. Elio
• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. PICASSO
• Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
• Poets make better lay
• Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars.
  The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets....
• Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars.
  The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets....
• Poets are born, not paid. -- Wilson Mizne