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There is language and there are experiences and there are emotions that go into any kind of creativity or imitation. And of course observation takes a large role in how we interpret and convey emotions or experience, using language that as vast as it is can be limited.
So yes, in one way its all a cycle, churned out in different ways.
Yet, when someone is writing say poetry, they're expressing their unique emotion. So, is it really imitation then if they happen to borrow a phrase they've read? I write poetry, and it doesn't feel like imitation it feels like creation, because its unique to me. A 3rd person might find parallels to different works, and at times I might not even have come across those other works before I wrote what I did. Maybe there are just limited ways of expression. I am just thinking aloud right now. I am not sure what it is but to me creativity does exist.
So yes, in one way its all a cycle, churned out in different ways.
Yet, when someone is writing say poetry, they're expressing their unique emotion. So, is it really imitation then if they happen to borrow a phrase they've read? I write poetry, and it doesn't feel like imitation it feels like creation, because its unique to me. A 3rd person might find parallels to different works, and at times I might not even have come across those other works before I wrote what I did. Maybe there are just limited ways of expression. I am just thinking aloud right now. I am not sure what it is but to me creativity does exist.