[Every] author, as far as he is great and at the same time original, has had the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.
—William Wordsworth, "Essay Supplemental to the Preface" (1815)
Quoted in J. D. McClatchy's Sweet Theft: a poet's commonplace book (Counterpoint Press, 2016)
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rejection slip
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
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