> Actually, the original quote (by TS Eliot) is "a bad poet imitates, a > good poet steals." And I think the implication is that, instead of > copying an artist you like a lot, you go ahead and rip off whatever he > or she did, then actually GO somewhere with it. It's kind of like "get > over trying to be 'original,' everything's been done, just try to do it > better."
...one of the fundamental ideas behind postmodernism. next question is, where do we go from here? /j
