Gosh, I ADORE Eliot, and appreciate the allusion. But while that's a famous quote, like a lot of "quotes", it isn't. It is a pithy and memorable paraphrase of a more nuanced passage from an Eliot essay...

"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 than that from which it is torn; the bad 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."

On the other hand, I can remember the "Good writers borrow..." line much easier, no matter how it's attributed. So there's THAT....


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