„Великие поэты имитируют и улучшают, тогда как мелкие — крадут и портят.“

W. H. Davenport Adams, «Imitators and Plagiarists». The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1892
Of Tennyson’s assimilative method, when he adopts an image or a suggestion from a predecessor, and works it up into his own glittering fabric, I shall give a few instances, offering as the result and summing up of the preceding inquiries a modest canon: «That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.»
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