#Imitation

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation."

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

"Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Fake sUCKs!"

"Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself."

"Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought."

"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."