Imitate Mature Quotes
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. — Lionel Trilling
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 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. — Thomas Stearns Eliot