Poetry quote - food for thought?

[abu nuwas]

Without wishing to appear hostile to my dear, dear friend 'Mystic Pumpkin', but in the interests of destroying harmony, I might add that I know artists, who sell, but who have a few items they keep back. They are not sentimental paintings, but ones they are v pleased with, and simply don't want to sell. I suppose that is not different from buying a picture, and hanging it on the wall. I should not feel inclined to then get hold of it, and scrawl over it, or alter in any way. In my house, I have dotted around various covers from 'The Economist' from years back, framed. There is Mao, Harold Wilson standing in the sea, Vietnam, the Twin Towers. I am sure that in the hands of my other dear, dear, friend Tracey E. these would be radically transformed and make a 'statement' of another sort. But if I don't feel disposed to alter these images created by someone else, why would I feel constrained to do other than leave my own unaltered? Or poems?

I think I mean that there is an honorable place for the completed work.