In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. The true poem is the poet's mind. Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
Every new relationship is a new word.
But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flower to them all. New arts destroy the old. Life too near paralyses art. Every artist was first an amateur. Art is the path of the creator to his work.