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TL;DR: 1. It isn't a Picasso quote 2. The source of the quote, T.S. Eliot's _The Sacred Wood_, literally suggests the opposite intent: "...bad poets deface wh
by mceachen 7y ago
TL;DR:
1. It isn't a Picasso quote
2. The source of the quote, T.S. Eliot's _The Sacred Wood_, literally suggests the opposite intent: "...bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest..."
- rebuilder 7y agoEliot seems to be saying good poets steal content not from the original author, but from the original context. Bad poets would be unable to transform the things they imitate.