Criminal man has lost all enterprise and originality.
And this same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension;
We are their parents and original.
Those with no memory insist on their originality.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Great poets steal.
The one and the only.
All my best thoughts!
Stolen by the ancients.
Ah! Gooblazqruk brukarchkrasht!
Truth! stark, naked truth, is the word; and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze wrapper on it, but paint situations such as they actually rose to me in nature, careless of violating those laws of decency that were never made for such unreserved intimacies as ours; and you have too much sense, too much knowledge of the originals, to sniff prudishly and out of character at the pictures of them.
Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
Mature poets steal.
Nothing new except what has been forgotten.
It’s not a real leg, only a false leg.
And there’s a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump.
O! Weeshwashtkissinapooisthnapoohuck?
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Let a splinter swerve.
It hath it original from much grief, from study, and perturbation of the brain.
Great artists steal.
The original papers, together with the scarlet letter itself—a most curious relic—are still in my possession, and shall be freely exhibited to whomsoever, induced by the great interest of the narrative, may desire a sight of them. I must not be understood affirming that, in the dressing up of the tale, and imagining the motives and modes of passion that influenced the characters who figure in it, I have invariably confined myself within the limits of the old Surveyor’s half-a-dozen sheets of foolscap. On the contrary, I have allowed myself, as to such points, nearly, or altogether, as much license as if the facts had been entirely of my own invention. What I contend for is the authenticity of the outline.
Necessary to any originality: the courage to be an amateur.
It is all for the taking.
Great artists.
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
The great artist who is truly schizophrenic will break the wall, reaching the unknown country where he does not belong to any age, any environment, any school.
And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
Now, do you doubt that your bird was true?
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