09-21-2023, 08:05 AM
There is a controversy in the Magickal Community, which is about 72 miles south of the Gay Community if you stick to the Interstate, about certain writers not giving credit to the demonic and angelic sources of the 16th century for the Rituals they are reproducing in their books.
This has been kind of like this post and others about references. Also about quotations and allusions and copyrights.
Here's a short list of people who used direct or indirect phrases with no interest in giving credit: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Leopardi, Emerson, Rimbaud, T. S. Eliot, Michael Albright.
They didn't care whether you knew that they were repeating phrases or not.
As long as the work was organic, felt right. Like The Bible.
If you want your writing to be good as the Bible or Shakespeare, unless you're Anne Carson or that Foster Wallace guy who's famous for pulling a Cobain, and if you can write more than ten good lines of your own ingenium, forget copyright laws and what you learned in college.
Swiping a line here and there, if it's the best fit, is safe as houses. Is as much a part of baseball, I mean, poetry, as stealing bases is in baseball, or using a steel folding chair in a pro wrestling match.
Some books have whole chapters on the defects and wrongs of the great poets. Maybe plagiarism will be one of your great faults. Like the Buddha says, Use what works.
People might bring up the rules of the site. I'm not breaking the rules of the site. I'm talking about poetry.
This has been kind of like this post and others about references. Also about quotations and allusions and copyrights.
Here's a short list of people who used direct or indirect phrases with no interest in giving credit: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Leopardi, Emerson, Rimbaud, T. S. Eliot, Michael Albright.
They didn't care whether you knew that they were repeating phrases or not.
As long as the work was organic, felt right. Like The Bible.
If you want your writing to be good as the Bible or Shakespeare, unless you're Anne Carson or that Foster Wallace guy who's famous for pulling a Cobain, and if you can write more than ten good lines of your own ingenium, forget copyright laws and what you learned in college.
Swiping a line here and there, if it's the best fit, is safe as houses. Is as much a part of baseball, I mean, poetry, as stealing bases is in baseball, or using a steel folding chair in a pro wrestling match.
Some books have whole chapters on the defects and wrongs of the great poets. Maybe plagiarism will be one of your great faults. Like the Buddha says, Use what works.
People might bring up the rules of the site. I'm not breaking the rules of the site. I'm talking about poetry.