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“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main…

— Marianne Moore

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.…

— Mark Twain

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Anonymous

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Voltaire

“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Discovery is poetry to genius

— William Mocca