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What TS Eliot Calls Stealing
I agree with what you said, Emily. What TS Eliot calls stealing, is actually the similarities between poems that occur by coincidence. When mature poets borrow things from another poem, they enhance it until it is not recognizable as the same poem. Immature poets end up creating a similar imitation of the poem, instead of making it better. I think that the best poets do not try to "steal" anyone else's work, they create their own poems. Poets should only use other poems to inspire them if they plan to alter enough so that you can't make an immediate connection between the two
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