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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

— Jamila Woods

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I…

— Bob Hicok

“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my…

— Harley King

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“We write a line we're especially proud of, and weeks later find it staring -no glaring - back at us from some stanza in…

— Robin Behn

“Poetry is one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.”

— Shawna Platt (Angel Shadow

“It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford being associated…

— Fran Lebowitz

“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at…

— Martin Amis

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

— Ambrose Bierce