"poet" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Other poets appear themselves upon the scene throughout, and imitate but little and rarely.
- The poet being an imitator, like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects- things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be.
- TS Eliot had already expressed a similar idea in 1920, when he claimed that "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".
- Subsequently, many other Persian poets imitated him and wrote their own versions of the romance.
- According to Dr. Rudolf Gelpke: Many later poets have imitated Nizami's work, even if they could not equal and certainly not surpass it; Persians, Turks, Indians, to name only the most important ones.
- Faced with drawings like these, we remember what T. S. Eliot once said - that whereas the bad poet imitates, the good poet steals.
- He thus wrote his speeches as "models" for his students to imitate in the same way that poets might imitate Homer or Hesiod, seeking to inspire in them a desire to attain fame through civic leadership.
- Without Plath's skill, younger poets imitate her pouncing violence at their peril.
- The quotation is slightly ironic, in a sense, because it is itself a paraphrase from T.S. Eliot, who wrote, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
- Or, as T. S. Eliot more bluntly put it in his essay on the Jacobean dramatist Philip Massinger: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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