Quotes on “originality”

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.