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Mature Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
- Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions…
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- 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…
- 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.
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