A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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