Pilfering Poets

something funny and fitting

Seeing How Ive been accused of Plagiarism

I thought these fitting and funny




Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it - even if I have said it -
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense
~Buddha

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
~Albert Einstein

What a good thing Adam had.
When he said a good thing,
he knew nobody had said it before
~Mark Twain

Nothing is said which has not been said before.
~Terence

About the most originality
that any writer can hope to achieve honestly
is to steal with good judgment
~Josh Billings



Genius Borrows nobly
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a thing has been said and said well,
have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
~Anatole France

Take the whole range of imaginative literature,
and we are all wholesale borrowers.
In every matter that relates to invention,
to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
~Wendell Phillips

Let us consider that we are all insane
it will explain us to each other
it will unriddle many riddles
~Mark Twain

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson



My books need no one to accuse or judge you:
the page which is yours stands up against you
and says, "You are a thief."
~Marcus Valerius Martial

I put my heart and my soul into my work,
and have lost my mind in the process.
~Vincent Van Gogh



The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad,
serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,
disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Don't worry about people stealing an idea.
If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
~Howard Aiken

I don't like composers who think.
It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
~Howard Dietz

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~Paul Gauguin

They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.
~Robert Burton

Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation.
~Alexis Piron

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole;
How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,
And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.
~Alexander Pope

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . .
Our poets steal from Homer . . . .
Our storydressers do as much;
he that comes last is commonly best.
~Robert Burton



Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
~Charles Churchill

Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books,
as of other treasure belonging to the dead
and hidden underground;
for they dispose of both with great secrecy,
defacing the shape and image
of the one as much as of the other.
~Sir William Davenant

Perish those who said our good things before we did.
~Aelius Donatus

When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors,
Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals.
He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


For such kind of borrowing as this,
if it be not bettered by the borrower,
among good authors is accounted plagiary.
~John Milton

He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
~Hannah More

With him most authors steal their works,
or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
~Alexander Pope

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
~John Milton



I recover my property wherever I find it.
~Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Amongst so many borrowed things,
am glad if I can steal one,
disguising and altering it for some new service.
~Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

It has come to be practically a sort of rule
in literature, that a man, having once shown himself
capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal
from the writings of others at discretion.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that readeth good writers
and picks out their flowers
for his own nose, is like a fool
~Stephen Gosson

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took--the same as me.
~Rudyard Kipling




There is much difference
between imitating a man
and counterfeiting him.
~Benjamin Franklin

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
~Benjamin Disraeli

He invades authors like a monarch;
and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
~John Dryden



I Know

is  great but dont hate

Don't accuse me of plagiarism
WHEN I'M THE POET
WHO'S BEEN PLAGIARIZED

Well someone is plagiarizing me again, Look at my posting date and my last updated date at fallowing link
 The Poet Within | WritersCafe.org | The Online Writing Community

Now look at her posting date it pisses me off
I mean really pisses me off!!!!!

If she was standing in front of me right now I think you'd have to pry my hands from around her neck lol

Not only has she stolen this poem but a few others
and I confronted her about it
and other poems she stole from other poets

http://www.gspoetry.com/the-poet-within-life-poems 509457.html

fallow the link

and some of you who have had the nerve of accusing me of plagiary let this show how freaking wrong you are!!!

My work has been widely Plagiarized

Author's Note

Continue to harass me all you want
I will no longer waste my time
with ignorant childish people
nor will I read further pointless
harassing reviews and or messages.
You will be blocked and flagged

Reviews

[Jed]

lol very funny I especially liked,

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it - even if I have said it -
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense
~Buddha

[Larry Dyson]

it takes insight to come to the same conclusion as a genius...`ME