Reply #8: Martin Luther King, Jr. [View All]

[H2O Man]

"...It was almost a trick, yet it was no more than what poets and storytellers have done throughout the ages: He stole his ideas and illustrations from older works. I use the word 'stole' here in the same way that T. S. Eliot used it when he said that the mark of a mature poet is when he stops borrowing from other poets and starts stealing outright."
-- Ralph Abernathy; When the Walls Came Tumbling Down; page 479