>Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal What did T.S.

>>9523287
If you can't understand Eliot and if you enjoy the mediocre doodles of Basquiat then your IQ is clearly too low to properly appreciate art. I strongly suggest that you get interested in a field that doesn't require creativity and intelligence, like maybe retail

>>9523311
what a naive assumption to spew

If you try to be someone else, you will fail. They are better at being them than you are, they've had more practice at it. But if you take what is theirs and make it your own, you will reap the rewards of their efforts and your own. Also this quote was Stravinsky's first do your fucking research.

>>9523287
Possibly, imitation acquires the scent of a man in the skin of lion, and stealing is to lionise a man. Like, bad, bad imitation is bad, and yet bad can be so good if good isn't all so bad if you give it a try - unless you try and find it smells funky and you're actually not even sure if it's fit to eat at all. So you go to the drive-through.

Or like, it's like, like so much better to teach a man to fish than to make him eat awful sushi. Cause he gets to learn how to practice his skill, maybe? Maybe not, eh? No...but like, imitating is sorta like, but not really, I know, like doing something you've been practising, and then you yaget so good it's like you've stolen it from them.

Again, though, I don't read much Eliot.

If you steal something it becomes yours instead of theirs.

Which is to say, you can achieve what a past poet was attempting and surpass him, such that the attempt becomes more associated with you than with him. If you're a great poet, that is.

>>9523311

Never change /lit/

>>9523287
"have some fucking balls because aint nobody truly original, sooner you learn this the better"

Imitating is copying someone else completely


Stealing is taking only the bits you need

>>9523510
This.

>>9523287
He meant that Basquiat a SHIT

>>9523821
You have it wholly backwards, wow

Something like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_Antrop%C3%B3fago

I always attributed this to Picasso.