David Wolpe's best comment in this, and it's so good I'm probably going to have to steal it, is: Don't trust people who explain their own beliefs with reason while explaining (or explaining away) other people's beliefs with psychology.
"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. 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"--T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massenger." http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw11.html
"'Without plagiarism, there would be no literature. I'm a rewrite man,' he adds disarmingly. 'A complete rewrite man, like our Willy Shakespeare'"--Christopher Logue, "Logue in vogue," quoted by Liz Hoggard.
David Wolpe's best comment in this, and it's so good I'm probably going to have to steal it, is: Don't trust people who explain their own beliefs with reason while explaining (or explaining away) other people's beliefs with psychology.
ReplyDeleteThat is so very very right on target.
David won't mind your stealing it, Art. You can trust me on that.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if Art does something nice with it?
ReplyDelete"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. 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"--T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massenger."
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw11.html
"'Without plagiarism, there would be no literature. I'm a rewrite man,' he adds disarmingly. 'A complete rewrite man, like our Willy Shakespeare'"--Christopher Logue, "Logue in vogue," quoted by Liz Hoggard.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/jan/22/poetry.features