“Great poets are great copy editors.”
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”
“Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy”
“He was a great poet" They lamented.No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?”
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.”