Immature Poets Imitate; Mature Poets Steal

For those of you who avidly follow this blog, you may remember the post "Theivery", in which I placed a link to a sight listing allusion within "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Well, I have now realized that the quote I presented in that post was incomplete. Here is how it is finished:

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal;

bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

- T. S. Eliot