...conviction that poetry, as envisioned by Aristotle, is the art of imitation is epitomized in the sentence, "Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a man's study, the praise of quoting another man fitly" (HS 8: 616-17). Take the wisdom of the ages, and hammer it into a new form appropriate to one's own...

...with the best authors, shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able...like theirs, which hath an authority above their own. Sen Jonson. LXXXI. TRUE HAPPINESS. " I SHOULD not like that sort of life," said Lillo. " I should like...