Originally Posted by
thumpism
"The good borrow, the great steal."
--Attributed to Picasso and many others.
“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 that from which it was torn.”
--T.S. Eliot